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Last Wednesday, six male residents of Holmes Hall came in drag to an informal women's dinner-discussion that was being held in the dining hall. On Friday night, the Freshman Union witnessed a dinner for male-chauvinist pigs. In the Fall, a group of men living at Radcliffe circulated a leaflet charging "Sexism at Radcliffe" after males were asked to leave a meeting with Matina Horner sponsored by the Women's Center...
...ironic it is that the same males who are amazed that women feel the need to meet together as women in order to secure (not to mention affirm) their female identities should come to such a meeting in drag. "It was a little bit strange -- a transvestite table. But I guess we were really unconscious about that," admits one of last week's many 'queens.' "If we were not dressed up, it would have been more of a political act. But the way we did it, we were trying to say that we meant it but not really...
...meet other women around here and get to know who they are?" asked a woman from South House. "That's why the women's dinner was started -- so women would have a chance to get together. Those were very social reasons. When the people came in in drag, some of the women were saying, "When you think that the men in your own house don't understand, you wonder how we're ever going to convince a whole university of men like them...
...Muzi-Kart's fiber-glass body has been lifted up to display a gleaming, hand-built $4,500 engine that jets the car down the drag strip at 150 m.p.h., a single bucket seat contoured to the exact dimensions of the driver, a tiny two-handled steering mechanism, and an automatic fire-extinguisher system...
...long ago, young hot-shots in the garment industry would swagger to the top with order pads in one hand and samples of the latest fashions in the other. But nowadays life along Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, main drag of the U.S. dressmaking industry, is a bit more subdued. Three years after the ill-starred "midi" provoked a customer rebellion that unstitched profits in firm after firm, many women are still shying away from dresses and skirts of any sort, and playing it safe fashionwise by choosing pantsuits. Result: a New York dressmaking disaster...