Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles of the 1940s made an appearance at the Loeb mainstage last Friday night, and I can get it out of my skin. I want to be a scowling man with chest hair in a battered with Venetian blinds. I am nostalgic for a time and place I have never been--is there a better sign that a show has hit home...
Hicks: I saw some really cool Prada leather underwear in NY but didn't have sufficient funds at the time. Actually, I never have the sufficient funds! I do, however, own leopard-print underwear but I thought that animal skin would be going a little too far for an amateur so I settled on the black K-mart special...
When it comes to my identity, my life is onelong shopping period. Depending on when it'sconvenient, I'll play either into the mainstreamor the role of the outsider. My name isn't toohard to pronounce and my skin tone is merely"swarthy," so it's easy to pass as notparticularly "ethnic." Alternately, whendiscussion group announcements accusingly ask me"Why do all the black kids sit together in thecafeteria?" I answer to myself, "Well, at least myroommates have a 'colored man' like me eating withthem...
...world. As clothes became less flashy--as Versace gave way to Prada--designers turned to models who were less glamorous, so they wouldn't overpower the clothing. "Maggie Rizer, Erin O'Connor, Karen Elson--those three girls are idiosyncratic," says Gandee. "Maggie has freckles; Karen has kind of dicey skin. You don't look at them and say, 'That's a pretty girl.' They not only weren't the homecoming queen; they might not have been invited to the prom." Magazine editors don't have to be nice either...
...Orleanna, the mother, at first an obedient 1950s wife who does not question bringing salvation to the heathens, struggles with remorse in her musings years later: "You'll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin." Sixteen-year-old Rachel, a teen queen who yearns for pop music and beauty aids, squawks, "Jeez oh man, wake me up when it's over." Ruth May, who is six and fearless, plays mother-may-I? with the village kids...