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...spoke too soon; in the first 10 minutes, the cast called Rocky virgins to the floor. We didn’t go, but the senior with the white skirt did, and so did a girl wearing suspenders and black pasties...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rocky End | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...When we joined the Rocky crowd, our friends who hadn’t known the code looked at their own white skirt and plaid shorts, and seemed miffed. We were more familiar with Longchamp and Lacoste than...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rocky End | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...also shows how the Ripper's 11 victims - all alcoholics who turned to prostitution - were brought down by slum life before falling prey to a murderer. A police list of Catherine Eddowes' clothing and possessions is both mundane and poignant: A gray petticoat, "a very old ragged blue skirt," and a pair of men's lace-up boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack the Ripper Revisited | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

...Minister, cut an especially peculiar figure as she ambled timidly into view. While most of the crowd standing under a burning sun wore T-shirts and shorts or miniskirts and halter tops, Silva, a hard-core Evangelical Protestant in the world's biggest Catholic country, was dressed in a skirt down her ankles, and she appeared somber and unmoved by the attention, as though she felt unworthy of such acclaim. But the poor voters had cheered her because she was one of them. She was also a potent symbol of both Lula's all-inclusive government and his stated commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blow to Brazil's Environment | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...more menacing than the one you are trying to escape. It is escapism that leads Chris, a fortysomething traveling salesman trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage, to a street corner in north London. There, he propositions Roza, an illegal Yugoslav immigrant in her 20s, who has donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about her life as the daughter of a communist partisan. They forge a friendship, with Chris visiting Roza often to listen to her tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis de Bernières: Going Nowhere | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

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