Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furthermore, this policy may help to remove the stigma that makes alcohol so tempting and dangerous. Harvard students are intelligent enough to realize that alcohol is a social drug that needs to be used responsibly. The administration needs to give them this chance by bringing drinking out from underground and into the open where it will lose its illicit allure and hence its danger...
...president, has served one previous year. Likewise, Brian R. Blais '97, the new vice-president, has been a council member for a mere year. Old-timers Jonathan P. Feeney '97 and Rudd W. Coffey '97, although full of promise and competence, seemed to be ultimately done in by the stigma of experience...
...unlikely that the gay community could raise enough funds on its own for a center. The stigma attached to joining a gay alumni organization would make it difficult for the BGLSA to raise the necessary money through alumni channels...
...million film has no stars and has been critically drubbed. Its sole market value, beyond the Eszterhas-Verhoeven brand name, is its rating--the one most directors so fear that they will scissor their films (as Verhoeven did with Basic Instinct) to avoid getting it. Showgirls wears this stigma as a badge of honor and a sales pitch. "Leave your inhibitions at the door," the ads blare. Translation: Dirty movie ahead...
...political message, Shaw does not merely express it, she embodies it. Apart from the standard queer affirmation of homosexuality as natural (a theme of many gay and lesbian plays), Shaw confronts the political stigma of the bull dyke within the lesbian community...