Word: earrings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...awoke the next morning suitably braindead. Ihad an absolutely evil hangover and six holes inmy earlobes. Six. I was suddenly able to wear myentire earring collection simultaneously. I wasnot pleased...
...delegation, I met with Bok in his office in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to end the administration's anti-union campaign. We knew we were meeting with one of the Big Boys of the Corporate World, so we tried to be polite and respectable. I removed my earring and even wore a jacket and tie. We sat up straight, avoided rhetoric, and kept our feet off the coffee table...
...well-defined policy of institutionalized discrimination against gays and lesbians. Gays are explicitly forbidden from participating in ROTC, and are regularly discharged from the armed services if they proclaim their sexual orientation. Several witnesses have stated that during a summer orientation session, one MIT recruit with an earring was forced to stand outside and yell "I am a faggot" for several hours...
...examples are easy. The Madonna look. Torn stockings. Tie-dye. Tattered jeans. Multiple ear pierces. A man with long hair or an earring. And, of course, the miniskirt, which, some may recall, was once upon a time a youthquaking look of radical chic and rebellion. Now businesswomen wear them...
...positive effects of such protest on the University administration, the takeover resulted in the Resolution and Commitee on Rights and Responsibilities, two of the biggest mockeries of procedural justice ever seen at Harvard. Yes, John Yoo, this "erstwhile activist who favors army surplus clothing and an earring" is afraid of things like arrest, beatings and death. Is that a surprise? Is it something to lament...