Word: brahminization
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...just a while, White Palace makes good on the promise and seriousness of these two splendid movie icons. He is a brooding Brahmin copywriter, she a blowsy waitress who tries to pick him up at a bar. It's class vs. crass. While he acts aloof and demure, she flatters his prettiness, then gets quickly to the business at hand. Soon they are shrugging off age prejudices like unwanted clothes, the quicker to satisfy their passion. She: "I'm 43." He: "I'm 27." Who cares? Wham! Their sex scenes, more intense than anything in the NC- 17 Henry & June...
Rajiv Goswami, 20, does not have the obvious makings of a hero. His father is a postmaster, and he grew up with six doting sisters in a typically middle- class family belonging to the Brahmin caste, the highest in the Hindu social order. At Deshbandhu College in New Delhi, he was a mediocre student, and he hoped to start work as a refrigeration engineer after graduation...
Ramakant Chaturvedi, 26, showed no more tendency toward dramatic self- sacrifice. The son of a political-science teacher, he also came from a middle-class Brahmin family. After finishing college in Bhind, he tried in vain to get a government job but found it hopeless because of quotas that limit positions for upper castes...
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Silber, for instance, poked at the Republicans when he quipped, "You know how to make an old Brahmin laugh--you tell him a joke when he's young...
Responding to cracks about the Brahmin bluebloods, Weld told the crowd, "It's no picnic being a Yankee WASP. Every other ethnic group is allowed to get drunk and eat interesting food and raise hell. I've got to sit around with all my cousins in dim lit musty rooms... reading the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and talking about my ancestors...