Word: staid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only a few weeks time, John Harvard’s staid, suburban sister plans to strip down, get liquored up, and let loose for a week of liberal-minded debauchery. On the heels of an April 7 concert to promote choice, fronted by a lesbian-led rock group at its Lulu Chow Wang campus center, Wellesley College’s GBLSTA group Spectrum plans to host its annual Dyke Ball on April...
Don’t worry too much about the little details: When it comes to design, don’t bother mirroring pages, and feel free to reuse photographs. (Designer Michael Kors looks even better on page 26 than on page one.) Proofreading is something better left to staid, stodgy publications like The New York Times; don’t waist your time. Capitalization schemes straight out of German and spellings like “semister” and “meat a freshman” will only augment your magazine’s “ineffable allure...
...small kiosks lining the souk sell clothes; often, underwear sets are hung just below rows of more traditional outfits like sequined belly-dance costumes. The underwear usually goes unnoticed by visitors, which is a tragedy, for Syria makes the rest of the world's raciest lingerie seem staid by comparison. "In Syria lingerie is manufactured by very conservative religious families for a religiously conservative clientele," says Halasa. Where frank sexuality and skimpy outerwear are commonplace, such as in the secular West, there is no need to "manufacture lingerie as racy and inventive as this," she theorizes...
...Hussein’s trial and execution were supposed to provide a historical reckoning, a sense of closure, and an opportunity for the Iraqis to establish an autonomous system of justice. Given Iraqi standards of justice, that end would have best been served by a professional and staid hanging. Instead, the execution devolved into a Shiite lynching that was calculated to inflame sectarian tensions. The cell phone video of Saddam’s hanging is as shocking for the taunting and chaos of the gallows as it is for the gruesome climax. As the noose was tied around Saddam?...
...renegade, refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas - simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument Hollywood has made of movie...