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...room CCII (make that 202) of Martin Luther King Latin Grammar Middle School in Kansas City, Missouri, Ms. Dickerson's rhetoric students are engaged in a public-speaking contest. Sixth-grader Jo Ann Carter, dressed in the school uniform of white blouse and plaid skirt, has chosen a speech by the school's eponym: "If something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect," she declaims forcefully, "the whole world is doomed...
...think it is a good thing that he uses technicalities to skirt the issues which are truly at stake," Gilchrist said, referring to the ROTC bill which Lewis rejected on the grounds that a compromise had been worked out the year before...
...Carolyn Bessette, Kennedy's girlfriend, who has proved that she's unafraid of PDAS (public displays of affection and anger), pulled Kennedy into another room at one point for a conference. This created more talk than did the question of how a movie with a leading man in a skirt could win so many awards...
...divorce announcement, however muddled, only served to reopen the scrapbooks of memory, reminding people of the fairy tale that was too good to be true. The shy teenager in the diaphanous skirt. The wedding shot--he in his dashing dress uniform, she in her silly, billowing gown. He looking every inch Prince Charming, she gazing at him in rapture...
...went to a private high school where we wore uniforms: pleated black watch plaid skirts and green, white or navy polo shirts for the girls, khaki pants and polos for the boys. Nearly every other morning, I recalled my days in public junior high school, when I frantically searched for the right denim skirt or the perfect blouse, and counted my blessings that life was this easy and uncomplicated--at least on the outside...