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...don’t think that my site is enabling people to have different online personas??that’s creepy—but I guess it allows them to explore a different identity of themselves or express a different part of themselves that they don’t feel comfortable expressing when their feelings and thoughts are linked to themselves,” Toor speculates...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Writing on the Stalls | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

...many of Carpenter’s protégés will perform. Some were not so new to the cross-dressing scene. At last year’s show, “Miss Patience,” a.k.a. James P. Alexander ’10, switched between two personas??a 1980s blonde bombshell and an Amy Winehouse-inspired vixen. He was joined by Marco Chan ’11, who bedazzled the stage in a cherry blossom Chinese dance costume. “It’s funny that a conformist place like Harvard would have these...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cross-Dress to Impress | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...ostensible engagement in frivolous girl-talk affirm her status as an adolescent rendered sexually unattainable by both law and taboo. The magazine’s most recent cover relishes its role as an extreme-makeover guru, peddling a sort of sexual plastic surgery. Pushing their Gossip Girl personas?? decided lack of naiveté to a new extreme, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester jointly lick a cone topped with two scoops of ice cream in an unapologetic allude to the phallic. Blake’s innocent “come-hither” gaze and her prominent cleavage combine...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: ‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...tricks was a bevy of invented personas??complete with wigs, elaborate costumes, and distinct personalities—that she would assume to (hopefully) ensure anonymity...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eating Incognito in New York City | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...hopes that the University and alumni will cough up a total of $12 million to fund an endowment to improve undergraduate life. If only they were making a joke—are they?—they would have my vote in a flash. Whether it be the fabricated personas??candidates touted as reformers, or outsiders, or people with experience—or megalomaniacal schemes, there is something surreal about the orgiastic frenzy of these people playing pretend. (Guys, wait 20 years and run for Senate.)It is lamentable that someone must win this race; students can best...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Playing Pretend | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

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