Word: haired
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Identity is a work in progress. When I meet an old friend from camp and tell them that today I highlight my hair, drink Coke and gave up rhythmic gymnastics years ago, they are shocked. Anna never did these things. Whether these changes are for the best is another question...
...talented" and worthy of his respect. Forget about judging or self-segregating based on ethnicity--we at Harvard are too righteous and politically correct. We only self-segregate based on skill. We are trapped in the middle-school mentality that only the people who have crimped hair and slap bracelets are worthy of playing seven minutes in heaven...
...when you're more concerned about your hair dripping than your thighs jiggling, you'll know that your priorities are so far out of whack that you've broken into Southern California's gym culture. Welcome to the jungle...
...museum show, Schildkrout and her colleagues focus on five types of bod-mod: tattooing, scarring, piercing, painting and shaping. And while some examples may seem bizarre to Western eyes, says Schildkrout, "we want people to realize that everyone, including themselves, performs some form of transformation. We color our hair, wear makeup, put on clothes, have plastic surgery...
...themselves apart, some in their 20s and 30s have latched on to the "neotribal" look, an amalgam of facial tattoos, piercings and "native" hairdos, and jewelry that borrows from cultures from the South Pacific to the Amazon. Much of this serves the same countercultural function that long hair did in the '60s, observes Rufus Camphausen, an author based in the Netherlands who has written extensively on tribal customs. Says he: "These symbols are a way of saying, 'I don't belong to the supermarket society...