Word: naming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assume other closet queens don't love them (I still have my poster of RuPaul giving the camera the finger from my middle school locker), b) don't assume closeted people don't engage in naughty sex acts themselves, and c) being closeted or speaking in the name of the closeted doesn't necessarily authorize the abjection of people who have different sex lives than yours. Putting forth a "respectable face," while more palatable to the noblesse oblige of the Harvard community, leaves those still deemed indecent in the cold...
That being said, one has to wonder if she has ever actually set foot in the abode that bears her family name. And I do mean abode, as in Abode of the Damned. Dante's Tenth Circle of Hell. Abandon all hope, Ye who enter here--particularly ye first-years who were tricked into believing that Loker Commons actually serves as any sort of social center to the Harvard population...
America, the Peace Corps and a handful of other name brand non-profits, is mainly a vehicle of the recruiting process. Students will come to pick up free balls and water bottles, see their friends from previous years in suits and positions of prominence. Then, they will rush back to their computers to eagerly hone their resumes and begin deliberating what bars they will frequent next year on Wall Street...
...name is probably more apt than its director, Arnold Lehman, ever intended. "Sensation" was advertised as liable to "cause shock, vomiting, confusion, panic, euphoria and anxiety." Indeed, its contents--most controversial of which are sliced-up animals suspended in formaldehyde and Chris Ofili's painting of the Virgin Mary with a generous helping of dung on her bosom--are not for the knock-kneed...
Yuppie guys, on the other hand, until recently, have lacked the range that women have been privy too. So-called "dick" flicks are not nearly as interesting or varied as movies more geared toward us of the skirt persuasion (even the name isn't as fun) - only lots of guns and strippers, or some wicked combination of both. And while I can easily revel in South Park, if some poor bloke happens to stumble upon any movie with Sally Field, it is indeed a sign of the apocalypse. I once caught (caught is the key word here) my father whimpering...