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...eight remaining castaways, three - Colleen, Sean and Rudy - appear to be wild cards. Colleen claims to have no strategy whatsoever, and indeed may have voted for Jenna to send her home to her kids (or so she could be sure of having the best female bod on the island). Rudy, with the wife out of "American Gothic," seemed to think Greg and his sister were doing an "incest type of thing" - good reason to clear the island of that whippersnapper, who was also sleeping with Colleen but flirting with Richard. And Sean? He voted for Greg because he's going...
...finally got to see what Stein looks like. Zowie! Now I'm in love not only with the writer but also with his bod! LORI INDOVINA VALUS McHenry...
...this universal phenomenon is being celebrated in two separate showcases. Last week a cross-cultural exhibition titled "Body Art: Marks of Identity," curated by Schildkrout and devoted to the past 4,000 years of body modification--"bod-mod" to the cognoscenti--opened at the American Museum. At the same time, photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, based in London, have published African Ceremonies (Abrams; $150), two magnificent volumes documenting the continent's rapidly vanishing kaleidoscope of tribal rites, many of which involve elaborate body decoration...
...museum show, Schildkrout and her colleagues focus on five types of bod-mod: tattooing, scarring, piercing, painting and shaping. And while some examples may seem bizarre to Western eyes, says Schildkrout, "we want people to realize that everyone, including themselves, performs some form of transformation. We color our hair, wear makeup, put on clothes, have plastic surgery...
...while the traditional, often spiritually based versions of bod-mod are quickly disappearing among indigenous peoples, the impulses behind personal adornment remain unchanged: attracting a mate, signaling status, declaring allegiance to a group...