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The origins of our tacky celebrations apparently derive not from the martyr but from one of two other sources. Historians place the Roman festival of Lupercalia in the middle of February and suggest that a pagan bacchanal might have developed over the course of centuries into our tamer celebration of...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Sex, Lies and Valentine | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

In many ways the CUE Guide is Harvard's answer to Mardi Gras. It is a reckless bacchanal, a time when values are inverted and hierarchies smashed. The mute speak; the evaluated evaluate. The "Justice" TF who gave you the B-? Nail 'er! And why not add something about her...

Author: By Dmitri Tymoczko, | Title: The Evaluation Game | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

THERE WERE MANY OFFICERS BUT FEW GENTLEMEN AT the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas. A Pentagon report released last week found that 83 women and seven men were forcibly groped, stripped, bitten on the buttocks or made to drink from the phallus of a fake rhinoceros during the three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Exposure | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

What he gradually learns is that four of the five, excluding Bunny, have already killed, in the course of what they are pleased to call a Greek bacchanal. A luckless farmer strayed into the path of their late-night revels, and, chitons aflap, fueled by booze and drugs, they butchered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Midst The Ferns | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

It was through engravings, above all, that Mantegna was able to reimagine classical motifs in all their grief, exaltation and lust. The satyr clutching the drunken boy in his Bacchanal with a Wine Vat has to be the sharpest and least prudish image of homosexual desire in all Renaissance art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Genius Obsessed By Stone | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

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