Date:    Mon, 9 Mar 1998 14:47:13 -0600
<br>From:    Katherine Catmull  kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BGA.COM 
<br>Subject: Re: wife-beaters
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<br> Sounds reminiscent of Stanley and Stella--any other suggestions as to source?
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<br>Robert DeNiro in "Raging Bull"? Actually this is simply the first example
<br>to occur to me. My husband, who favors these shirts, calls them "old
<br>Italian man T-shirts," which suggests that he like me associates them
<br>with urban, working-class, "ethnic" men of the 1950's. I suppose the
<br>unpleasant "wife-beating" stereotype could attach there as well.
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<br>Kate Catmull
<br>kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bga.com
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