There is a bit of purpleness in the prose : three adjectives or nouns ( " conquest, domination, and complete conformity " ) where two will do.
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A : It all started when His Royal Purpleness used a symbol combining the circle-and-arrow male-female signs as the name of one of his albums.
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Granted, The New York Times'shoe maven may have a good excuse for the non-PC purpleness of this prose : a bit too much Gotham summer, perhaps, or a simmering ambition to create a'90s-noir script for Sharon Stone.