Word: kiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue erupted in February when a gay student charged he was physically and verbally assaulted after a Mather House dance because of his sexual orientation. The incident intensified when gay students staged a "kiss-in" protest at the Mather dining hall. Later there were questions about teh original attack, but meanwhile the house, and the community at large, had split into camps which labeled each other as homophobic on the one hand and overly confrontational and "improper" on the other...
Slowly the train of boxcars rolls to a halt at Kapikule, where Bulgaria becomes Turkey, and a flood of humanity spills out. Many kneel to kiss the ground. Others weep as they unload furniture, suitcases and sacks stuffed with possessions and pile them on the station platform. Military marches and battle cries of the Ottoman Empire blare from loudspeakers. A man shakes his fist at the distant Bulgarian hills and shouts, "Long live Turkey! This is the happiest day of my life...
...estimated 2,000 a decade ago, roam the streets of Managua. At a busy intersection, a twelve-year-old girl throws a pack of cigarettes through a car window into a driver's lap. As she stuffs a wad of money into her torn blouse she blows a kiss, leans forward and asks, "Do you want to see more...
Sometimes, the class resembles nothing so much as a junior high locker room. Says a regular: "We're free to be adolescent and silly, like we were when we were 14, but without being mean." When Shaffer played Prince's recent hit Kiss, with the lyrics, "I'll be your fantasy and you'll be mine," she blurted out, "Not really. What if Prince was the last man on earth? Would you be celibate, or what?" The breathless women nodded in agreement...
Reagan's presence promises to be unique, a kind of grandfatherly seminar on a range of issues that have touched his long life, from Communism to kissing. His respect for the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev has grown stronger. "I have met a number of leaders, and he is different," insists Reagan. "He is trying to straighten things out." For his part, the old actor would like to straighten out Hollywood. "((In)) a movie kiss in the old days, the two of you were barely touching lips. You did not want any face being pushed out of shape...