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...misguided way, Smith's bid to escape can be seen as paralleling bids by women from other socio-economic strata in the United States, who by their attempts to join the public realm, are perceived as violating cultural norms and from whom severe penalties are exacted for these transgressions...
Volleyball aficionados may laugh at the thought of the Crimson beating the Tigers, but given the team's improvement so far this season, a big upset is not outside the realm of possibility...
...fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador to the U.N. "Words are cheap," she bluntly declared. "Actions are the coin of the realm...
...golden mane that cascades around his face like honey. He is able to be at once fey and masculine, crude and innocent. Few actors' looks are so captivating that all they have to do in a scene is give a certain stare while being magnetic and conveying a realm of desire and needs. The younger Depardieu is one such actor...
...Roiphe, the realm of sex is still a man's game, and if a woman wants to play, she needs to play by the rules. In one anecdote, she describes a friend who tells off obscene phone callers by informing them that she was her high school's "blow job queen." While that may be a worthy achievement, you have to wonder about an equation that links sexual service with one's own personal identity...