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...first she’s just a transvestite, but then you suddenly realize that it’s actually just an optical illusion: in her words, “I do not impersonate females. How many women do you know who wear seven-inch heels, four-foot wigs, and skintight dresses?” True that, RuPaul, true that. —Tim R. Hwang ’08 may have finished fourth in the 2006 UC Presidential elections, but he’s still working towards its demise...

Author: By The crimson arts staff , CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Celebrity Lists | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...original, and colossally stylish. If what I have seen is a glimpse into the future of fashion, then I have seen the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.The folks who prance down the streets horrify the eye with their courageous but bizarre aesthetics. Men and women alike bedeck themselves in skintight jeans that cling to bony legs with non-existent muscles. Midriffs, too, are common for both sexes, revealing ribs and hipbones to match. Piercings, facial and otherwise, make the crowded street sparkle like a Christmas tree. In a crowd like this, Americans certainly stand out like sore thumbs.This is about...

Author: By Sarah C. Mcketta, | Title: Ugly is the New Pretty | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...California's Edwards Air Force Base, slim, hawk-nosed Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 37, leisurely finished a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, struggled into a silver-tinted pressure suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Flight of the X- 1 5 | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

...give the benefit of the doubt to Korine when his most popular directorial work is a TV special for magician David Blaine.Marshall is next seen running on a track with two burqa-clad groups. But despite the apparent differences between the two and Marshall—dressed in a skintight red outfit—they are all the same underneath. Korine then includes a long close-up of one woman’s sleeves billowing wide enough to reveal the same red beneath her clothing. The women aren’t naked, but the symbolism is embarrassingly so.Still, the women...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Patrick R. Chesnut, and Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...below near the top of mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, New York, and U.S. lugers Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin are wearing skintight racing suits, perched atop a 60-cm-wide sled. Martin sits behind Grimmette, legs straddling his teammate. "I've got no traction on my feet," yells Martin. Grimmette, like a longtime nanny, instantly wipes them down with his gloves. The pair, teammates for 10 years, alternate deep breaths. "All right, be aggressive," says Grimmette. "Yup," replies Martin. With that, the U.S.'s best-ever Olympic luge team shoots from the starting block. Now supine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounters | 2/4/2006 | See Source »

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