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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tattoos and body piercings are the dominant style. One rider lampoons the Independent Truck Company with a shirt that reads, "Indecent Fuck...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: DESTINATION | 10/22/1996 | See Source »

Colors become jarring plays on the mood or plot of the scene: Cynthia cannot believe that Hortense, who is black, is her daughter and calls her just as Hortense is wearing a white facial mask -- highlighting her misguided assumptions. In the final scene, Maurice's peaceful, blue shirt, set against an innocent turquoise mush of wallpaper, sets one up to be surprised at his suddenly unrestrained response to the family's conflicts...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Leigh Dishes Up Family Ties Without Mallory | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...appreciated by all. The first excerpt she quoted opened with this passage from her most famous book, The Women Warrior: "In the midnight unsteadiness we were back at the laundry, and my mother was sitting on an orange crate sorting dirty clothes into mountains -- a sheet mountain, a white shirt mountain, a dark shirt mountain, a workpants mountain, a little hill of socks pinned together in pairs, a little hill of handkerchiefs pinned to tags...

Author: By Elaine Yu, | Title: MAXINE HONG KINGSTON | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...curious to see where he was going with this line of questioning," he said, adding that the caller then asked the student to remove his shirt, and after the student pretended to do so, asked him to also remove his pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two First-Years Receive Harassing Phone Calls | 10/11/1996 | See Source »

...asked what I was wearing. When I gave a very general description, he asked for specific details, like what type of shoes and the color of my shirt. At this point, I definitely realized that this person was not from Newsweek," the student said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two First-Years Receive Harassing Phone Calls | 10/11/1996 | See Source »

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