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Once the girl finished praying, however, she turned to her friend and proceeded to ask her whether she looked fatter in the skirt she was wearing or the one she had worn the previous week...

Author: By Jackeline Montalvo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumna Levine Probes Lives of Hasidic Teens | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...possible death of millions from a nuclear war he believed was ever more likely. "The most important thing about John Kennedy," his biographer Richard Reeves says, "is that he thought he was going to die young, and he could not wait his turn." Behind J.F.K.'s Eros--the skirt chasing, the virile New Frontier rhetoric, the pledge to shoot a big phallic rocket at the moon by decade's end--was Thanatos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Eternal Flame of Cable | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...you’ve been perusing fashion magazines recently and have stumbled across a spread of Jennifer Lopez, awash in Louis Vuitton and sexually submissive male models. If you haven’t, here’s a synopsis: her calves and hamstrings are as taut as her leather skirt. Her cheekbones look sharp enough to cut diamonds. She makes my stomach feel like a tilt-a-whirl. In a good...

Author: By Dan Gilmore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: View from the Pop | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...fall of the House of Cosey? And who (if anyone) killed Bill? Be forewarned: the story comes with some assembly required. We piece it together through the remembered narratives of the various members of the household, including Heed, Christine, L and Junior, a lusty, scheming teenage vixen "with a skirt short as underpants and no underpants at all," whom Heed hires to help out around the house. It emerges that Heed and Christine were childhood best friends but that when Cosey married Heed--she was 11 at the time--the girls were torn apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love-Sick | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...isn’t a hard step—I know it is. But the whole point is that underneath the make-up, masculinity is still easily confirmed. You still know which bathroom to go to; you can walk down the street without fear of harassment because, although your skirt may be short, your voice is still low. Transgression on Drag Night might make you feel good, but it makes a mockery of trans people and trans lives. Drag Night, at least in its current incarnation, doesn’t bring “diversity?...

Author: By Beccah G. Watson, | Title: Something to Shave About | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

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