Word: camels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair often spend months at a time traveling through remote regions by car, mule or camel, with no means of communication with the outside world. In order to gain the trust of wary tribes, Beckwith and Fisher may live with the locals for weeks or even months, befriending the chief and integrating themselves as much as possible into daily life. The women usually work through a translator--sometimes two, in the case of especially rare dialects. Being female has made it easier to gain access to rites that outsiders rarely witness. Notes Fisher: "We're less threatening to the women...
...television; pressuring Big Media into accepting a ratings system and a V-chip technology to let parents control what their kids can see on the tube; embracing school uniforms and curfews; plunging into tobacco row with a machete to stop cigarette companies from luring the young with Joe Camel and the Marlboro...
...Discontent] had been simmering for a while, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back," says Eric M. Nelson '99, a Crimson editor who was one of HSF's organizers...
...Newsweek's Joe Klein is now so hot that his weekly oeuvre is getting deconstructed a la Jacques Derrida. Klein is a good guy, author (maybe), even though he doesn't bring a camera on trips--only dorks do that--but expects you to take his picture on a camel and get two-for-one prints made...
...choreography could well have closed the show, except that the plot had failed to rumble to its so-close-you-could-taste-it end. Instead, the audience had to sit through an overblown monologue by a minor character and a boring ballet (featuring a busty, less-than-agile camel) that turned into the Pudding's usual Rockettish finale. Throughout this ordeal, all I could do was shake my head...