Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, there's still a stigma. A middle-aged Beverly Hills stockbroker paints his toes but only shows his wife, according to Jeanne Chavez, Hard Candy's sales v.p. And Glenn Watamanik, 35, a foreign-currency specialist, wore his electric-blue nails to work at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange--just once. "Younger people thought it was cool," he says. "But the more conservative look at you like you're crazy." Some men reserve nail polish for "let's go out" time--with or without a date. "Women come up to my friend who wears nail polish and have something...
...ability to reach that capability has been in question in recent years, particularly last season when the Crimson failed to make the Eastern Tournament for the second straight year. Thus the Harvard program has fallen under the rebuilding stigma...
...format has a special appeal to female listeners: it allows them to hear someone like themselves instead of, say, someone like Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. And record companies like it because women tend to buy more records than men. "Years ago, there used to be a stigma held by rock-radio programmers against playing too many female artists," says Bob Waugh, assistant programming director at modern-rock radio station WHFS in Washington. "Now there has been such an explosion of female artists and female-led bands coming to prominence that the perception has changed...
Hopefully for the Crimson the knowledge and experience from this past season will enable it to not only compete in the key matches, but actually emerge the victor. Only then will the team be able to shed the "rebuilding year" stigma...
...downplaying, the stigma of number three was too difficult to wash away in a snap. Many students were baffled that the home of Crimson Cash, The Tasty and Cornel West '74 was not the hands-down winner...