Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barbra exited Mass Hall like a Queen bee surrounded by a swarm of her workers, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III among them. Mesmerized students and a couple of local photographers inched closer to her with trepidation, like squirrels walking up to an outstretched handful of peanuts. They were all painfully aware that they should not appear too gawky and tacky. They failed...
...describe greed, but contains no real character analysis, and no profound insights into why ordinary people would behave like animals in the pursuit of a suitcase full of money. Boyle's final shot is haunted by the maniacal laughter of a flatmate as blood runs over the image of Queen Elizabeth's face on a bank note. It makes the viewer wonder if "Shallow Grave's" gory pandemonium is a big, shallow joke...
...reaches into the milk crate and heaves out a rectangular object made of yellow metal. Mom hauls out another one. She and Dad begin lining them up on the counter, like King and Queen Midas unloading a carton of Twinkies...
When she first joined ECHO, an East Coast electronic community, Marcia Bowe dubbed herself ``Miss Outer Buro 1991,'' a handle that facetiously implied beauty queen-like poise, glamour, congeniality. And soon enough, Bowe was enjoying the adulation of fellow ``ECHOids'' who posted messages praising her wit, candor and smarts. Such celebrity was heady stuff for Bowe, a free-lance writer who describes herself in real life as shy and wary of emotional encounters. ``I became addicted to this constant stream of approval,'' she says. ``It was like a big co-dependency machine.'' As Bowe began spending up to 100 hours...
...there has been an explosion of the acknowledgement of cross-dressing in the culture. A number of movies dealing explicitly with the subject have received both critical and popular acclaim. They include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mrs. Doubtfire. An upcoming Patrick Swayze vehicle, will soon join their ranks. Inexplicably, the current video by a mainstream adultcontemporary pop singer, Gloria Estefan, is a paean to the thrills of crossdressing. Consequently, increased exposure to the practice means that the traditional, instinctive reaction to many public male-to-female cross dressers, usually one of laughter coupled with spasms of revulsion...