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...There is more dancing, more drinking. Then Constant too is lying on the floor, in a fetal position. A girl dances around him as fire licks at rum-soaked spots on the floor. The priest and Constant embrace. Constant disappears. Five gunshots ring out. Constant reappears, wearing an orange robe. Time passes in a haze of booze and heat...
Members are no longer bound by the old suit-collar-and tie-dress code: colorful, flowing African robes now stand out among the charcoal and the pinstripes, and one white A.N.C. member has been seen sporting a Nehru jacket. The A.N.C.'s Frene Ginwala, an Indian lawyer who is the nation's first female Speaker, took her seat last week in a sari rather than the usual House of Lords-style robe and trimmings...
...some cases, the connection is still more of a direct line than in others. "A lot of girls get deb dresses to also wear at their weddings after altering them slightly. It makes sense, if you're going to spend that much on a dress," Robe opined, although she chose differently...
Stevenson was presented by her father and her brother escorted her, "which is sort of how it works in the South; if you have a brother of proper social age, he presents you." Similarly family-minded, Robe had her cousin be her escort and a high school friend be her 'marshal', saying "I wanted to keep it low-key, with friends from home." And in Austin, men receive equal time with women in the social whirl. Malone notes, "All 15 of us, our escorts were chosen for us; it's sort of an honor for them...
...already told you, blockhead, people outside of Harvard don't comp. But I'm glad you're staying and graduating. And not only will you get a crimson A.B., but you'll pick it up dressed in a regal crimson robe. Others wear boring black robes, but Harvard is not only wise but also fashion savvy. Crimson your robe shall...