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...Hollywood contingent, out of the cast of Driving Miss Daisy, was low key. Gorbachev gave a discreet glance at Morgan Freeman's diamond earring, Jessica Tandy's ponytail, and said nothing. Gorbachev surveyed Senate majority leader George Mitchell, pronounced him "looking good." Mitchell promptly hustled the Soviet boss to come around to his native Maine on the next visit. The U.S. trade czar, Carla Hills, sat at Gorbachev's right but offered only a beatific smile when asked if she had cut any deals over the mixed spring salad. In the White House, candlelight and the aura of history soften...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Capitalists over Corn Bread | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Just Remember One Thing: Avoid Any B-31 Room | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: The Essence of Derek Bok | 6/6/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Never Again | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Nose Rings and Narcissism | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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