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...costs -- just ask my husband. But the skyrocketing prices are pushing fashion beyond the reach of willing buyers like me. I was leafing through a fall fashion magazine the other day, plotting my seasonal purchases. There was a charming outfit by a no-name designer in delicious shades of pink and red (this is the year of color, remember): mohair coat, $725; cropped jacket, $575; knit dress, $230. The total for the ensemble: ! $1,530. That's not including the $68 wool scarf, $15 ribbed tights or the who- knows-how-much gloves. I bought a pair of stretch velvet...
There weren't many surprises at the John Kerry headquarters in the Copley Plaza Hotel last night. The main attraction was the band, which played in a pink, 20-foot tall scallop shell. But the exuberant party next door for newly elected state treasurer Joe Malone '78 reportedly pulled guests from the Kerry contingent. Malone's opponent, William F. Galvin, conceded his loss at 9:30 p. m. The only excitement at his party was the homemade brownies, which drew many Silber supporters a way from the television monitors in the main room...
Soon, foot-tall pink triangles appeared in many Mather windows. Blue squares materialized in several others, and an ambiguous symbol was born...
...regardless of what AALARM advertises, the blue square is opposed in some way to the pink triangle because of its origin in the wake of the Mather Incident. Harvard Republican Club president Sumner E. Anderson '92, the first person to propose distributing blue-square badges, says he intended them as an anti-gay message...
...setting up the blue square as a symbol of a traditional view of sexual morality, AALARM has caught itself in a rhetorical quagmire, partly because of the ambiguity of the pink triangle's significance. Homosexuals were forced to wear pink triangles as an identifying mark in Nazi death camps, and the gay rights movement adopted the pink triangle as a symbol they say opposes violence against gays...