Word: rigidness
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...failure of the Prince and his friends to create a believable feminine identity simply by wearing women’s clothes (in contrast to the convincing disguise they provide for men in Shakespearean comedies) reveals the play’s agenda to express gender as rigid and biologically-determined. The fact that the eunuchs can dress monochromatically like women demonstrates that they have lost their biologically male trait...
Mitchell says that a few other factors contributed to that decision. He describes the Times itself as a powerful institution with some rigid rules, very much deserving of its “Grey Lady” nickname...
...hours spent in the studio, students are spurred less by rigid deadlines than by the sheer talent and expertise surrounding them. Weekly screenings, for example, bring first-rate animators from around the world to discuss their work. Visiting Lecturer Piotr Dumala is himself a master animator, and arrived with a hefty list of international film awards stretching back to his debut in the early 1980s...
Committee member Jane Edwards, who is the director of Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP), said such restructuring would be particularly important for students in the sciences, whose more rigid curriculum leaves less room for travel...
...calculated exposure of skin (They were called skin flicks.) The genre boomed in 1959 with the smash success of Russ Meyer's nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, which cued a five-year run of so-called nudie-cuties. Says prime sexploitation showman Dave Friedman: "Nudie-cuties were very rigid in their construction -you had the boy/girl scene, the girl/girl scene, the orgy scene, and then the kiss-off." These light comedies gave way to Meyer's delirious lower-depths melodramas, and to Radley Metzger's glamorous European-accented romances, and to R.L. Frost's sex-and-violence epics, known...