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...according to a sophomore in Currier House. The main difference was that there was no dancing, which probably would have changed the gathering’s classification from a party to an orgy. In order to feel more comfortable in their own bare skin, partygoers sipped on a purplish drink that was “basically just pure vodka...

Author: By Ryan D. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Naked Yale Party. It happened. | 11/28/2009 | See Source »

...shell-shocked friend might've actually remained inside the vehicle for the rest of the evening. (A paramedic later informed me that explosions only happen in movies.) Against all odds, we only suffered a few cuts. My bruises were mostly from the airbag, which left a purplish ripple down the side of my face...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: The View from the Passenger Seat | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...preoccupation, immateriality can wear a little thin. So it's good that lately Kapoor has been interested in more solid realities. Past, Present, Future, the tour de force in this show, is an enormous half-hemisphere of purplish red wax and paint. Almost 30 ft. (9.1 m) wide, it bursts from a wall at one end of the gallery. A curving motorized blade rides slowly back and forth across its surface as though carving it, sending off splatters of wax along its circumference like solar flares. Wagnerian, mythic and muddy, it's something vast and strange being born, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...sooner did the report appear than the CDC began hearing from doctors in San Francisco and New York City, who were also seeing PCP in young homosexual men. And that was not all they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that in this country is usually found only in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction. They had other infections as well: Candida albicans, a fungus that cakes the mouth and throat, making it difficult and painful to speak or eat; herpes, not just the garden variety of sores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: A Growing Threat | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...gowns runs a dark purplish color, which does not come out in the wash,” Gerver wrote last year in an e-mail. “Do NOT wear anything light under your gown...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seniors Complain About Attire | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

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