Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, fetid personal details of Joplin's own life are brought in and drooled over. The most offensive example exploits her alleged bisexuality. From literally out of nowhere there appears in Rose's dressing room one evening a gorgeous Valkyrie in Junior League pearls and a tastefully pleated white skirt. The two women fawn and coo over one another in an absolute travesty of lesbian affection. Rydell handles the entire scene and topic with the leering prurience of a porn director. He offers up to us his Bryant-esque theory of homosexual women: when that rare "good...
...varsity level II sport, there was some question as to whether Scalise should be coaching a women's sport since he was of the opposite sex. During one of the last practices that fall the players were surprised to find a women with long blond braids, a corduroy skirt and ankle socks waiting for them in place of Scalise on the field. Closer observation showed however, that the legs were those of an All-American lacrosse player...
Even in the late '60s, Radcliffe encouraged women to wear skirts to class and around the city. Molony says as a freshman, she was told to wear a skirt in the Cambridge Common and warned that the common could be dangerous after dark. But, she says, "My average skirt was 13 inches long." However, only the weekly formal dinners at Radcliffe actually required her to dress...
...position but overshoots the steps. The door opens and a stewardess appears. A photographer swears, having wasted two shots on what he thought was the Pope. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros heads up the ramp, the U.S. Chief of Protocol in tow. First Lady Rosalynn Carter is conspicuous in a black skirt-and-jacket-suit with a matching hat that could only be a bowler. The Pope makes his first appearance in the U.S. during his pontiffship and the dignitaries break into respectful applause. The photographers just click away...
Every year dozens of hopeful students trudge over to University Health Services (UHS), praying that maybe--just maybe--they can skirt the one-year language requirement. They're not Francophobes, and they don't really believe German was designed to be understood only by Bavarians, but they abhor the idea of anything to do with bon mots in exotic tongues...