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...Their view of you will change forever," Aunt Ruru explains kindly to her newly-out niece, Frazier. "You will be reduced to an object. It's not fair but that's the way it is. If you wear a purple skirt people will say it's because you're a lesbian. You own an art gallery. They'll say that gay people are always artistic...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: 'People Are Beautiful and Life Is Short' | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

Math class. Ms. Jorsling, a big woman wearing a wide red cardigan and long blue skirt, says very little during the entire period...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: Khalilah Horton Goes to School | 5/12/1993 | See Source »

...Saturday morning, 10 advisers in coats and ties and one in a skirt were seated around the table in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, awaiting their Commander in Chief. This was the moment of truth, when Bill Clinton -- breezing in wearing a golf shirt -- would wrestle with the options for action in Bosnia one more time. For more than four hours, the advisers went over the pros, but mainly the cons, of military intervention in Bosnia. "The President listened and everyone talked," said one participant. "It was not a session called to ratify his ready-made decisions." Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Bomb Or Not To Bomb? | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...beautiful young woman squirms on the rear seat of a taxi in midtown Manhattan, trying to get out of her tight skirt, and then, when she has managed to do that, squirms again, trying to wiggle into a second, somewhat tighter skirt. She succeeds, but the new skirt leaves no room for lingerie. Off come half-slip and panties. She leaves them on the taxi floor, with the old skirt. At her destination, as she pays the cabby, he nods at the new skirt. "Whatdja do, steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striptease In a Taxi | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...blue jeans would come in with a baby who was suffering from a cold and ask for some medication," recalls Dr. Joe Jacobs, summoning up a scene from his days at the Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico. "She'd be accompanied by the grandmother in traditional hoop skirt, who kept silent." After examining the child, Jacobs would offer his prescription for soothing inflamed nasal passages: boil some sage leaves in water and have the youngster inhale the aromatic fumes. "When she'd hear that, the young mother invariably would give the grandmother a sheepish smile. It was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dr. Jacobs' Alternative Mission | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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