Word: brahma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenes, ominous organ music and barely a page of dialogue, all slowly unfolding a circuitous plot involving Gilmore (played with truculent wordlessness by Barney), copulating bees, members of the Gilmore clan, Houdini (played briefly and pugnaciously by Norman Mailer, author of the Gilmore saga The Executioner's Song), a Brahma bull, the Mormon Tabernacle and landscapes ranging from Utah's blindingly bright salt flats to the glacial ice fields of Jasper, Canada...
...thousand years ago in the central Indian town of Khajuraho, the monarchs of the Chandella dynasty commissioned a vast temple complex, consecrated to the great triumvirate of Hinduism: Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. What makes the complex unique is that among the thousands of exquisitely carved images are scores of sculptures portraying gods, humans and animals in uninhibited sexual embrace. Once lost beneath dense jungle, the site has emerged in recent years as a popular attraction. "What better way to end the millennium," suggests Betty Bohnenblust, a local hotelier, "than to relive its beginning...
...pictures of the Hindu gods Shiva and Krishna occupy the wall of a bar, behind a number of bottles of liquor. A large statue of a dancing Shiva stands in the midst of the dance floor; a scantily clad man wearing a mask with three heads (apparently representing Lord Brahma) dances erotically on a pedestal. Finally, a statue of Lord Ganesha--the same deity that Hindus install at the entrance of their holy places--beckons people into the club...