Word: caging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seconds of chaos and quasi-freedom. Then the magician, with fluid nonchalance, grabs the dove from the air, two-handed, making from the explosion of feathery white a smooth inanimate sculpture of a bird. Then in one swift motion he shoves the dove into a small cage, with little steel bars, on a stand by his waist. Once inside, the doves sit docilely, staring ahead through the tiny silver bars. Though there is a hole just behind them, they sit, cooing--one dove, then two, three, four, five, six, all in a row. When he is done, the magician...
...learn from a ten-year correspondence (often wonderfully interactive on stage) between Karen and Bibi, Karen feels stifled by the oppressive Chinese regime that imposes the role of a "good citizen" on its people at the expense of the individual. Karen feels like "a beautiful bird in a cage" whose colors will never be seen nor its song heard. Reading about America and the freedom allowed in the West in books sent by Bibi only makes Karen more depressed...
...constructed a cage with two identical compartments. The compartments were connected by a transparent door. In one compartment, she placed chipped wood on the floor while the other compartment was empty. In one experiment she placed a hen inside the empty compartment. Immediately, the hen pushed the door open and walked into the chipped wood side and began scratching--a species-typical behavior. If the hen started on the chipped wood side, she never went over to the empty side...
...lived a long, fruitful, panda life--in a cage," my editor said...
...will learn just what the Aggie Bonfire was about when we can get our entire student body together to do something other than complain. If you want to find out for yourself, go to a basketball game in the Cage this week, go see the Kroks sing their hearts out, or go see an incredibly pretentious lecture...