Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Orlando's rococo industry of make-believe has put some zip into local gossip columns. Hollywood celebrities pop up regularly. Some, like Steven Spielberg and Robert Earl, the British mastermind behind the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes, have even bought homes in Orlando. The area, says Earl, is "full of millionaires driving trucks and wearing jeans...
...hours later, it had sunk in. My roommate and his "fiancee" had agreed to tie the knot, or, if you prefer, get hitched. They had chosen to zip the proverbial sleeping bags of their life together. Sure, they had dated for two years. But 60 more? And, dare I say it, children...
...want coverage? Zip it up, go the full nine yards,'" they told...
Moral suasion, not legal action, is the best way to SWAT, ZIP or otherwise damage the Fly and other clubs of its ilk. Don't join them. Don't attend their parties. And hold club members and hangers--on accountable for their actions. They deserve to be pariahs in a community committed to social justice...
Last week, the raucous three-year saga ended quietly, as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) rejected Schkolnick's final appeal, claiming a lack of jurisdiction to intervene in the matters of a private club. SWAT has been swatted, ZIP has been zipped and the Fly remains open--open to continue its antiquarian membership policies, open to perpetuate an elitist old-boy network, open to treat women like slabs of meat...