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...despair are captured both by the climaxing score and by Cranko's choreography. Ponamarenko and Berdo complements the technical perfection of their steps with an intensity of emotion that draws the audience to a breaking point as Tatiana pulls Onegin across the stage only to fall on his chest. In the end, however, her loyalty to her husband prevails, and in a sad twist of fate, she rips up Onegin's letter and with a pained expression points to the door. As Onegin leaves, Tatiana stands desolate, head and eyes lifted upward and arms stretched down by her sides...
...normal. "Blood pinning," however, is anything but. Ordinarily, when Marine paratroopers complete 10 training jumps, they receive their golden wings, a pin with two half-inch protruding points on the back. Sometimes, with that military love of macho ritual, the pin is even proudly thumped into a Marine's chest to draw a little celebratory blood. But according to two amateur videotapes obtained by Dateline NBC and aired as well on CNN late last week, that ritual sometimes descends into something much more barbaric...
...says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech, then handed out the wings. "I was the first guy in line, and he pinned it on my uniform and gave me the punch. The thing would go into your chest, break the skin, draw blood, but every day we had bigger bruises and bumps than that. We looked at our wings very pridefully, put the clips on the back, sat down and had dinner--and that was it." At first Trainor thought the furor was "the politically correct people trying...
...Halpin immediately dispatched the writer to find and interview a prostitute. "We wondered if maybe hookers were untapped sources of political gossip," says Halpin. For the "security issue," one of Stim's contributors wanted to put on a bulletproof Kevlar vest and let a friend shoot him in the chest. (The experiment was scotched when the shooter chickened...
That Pez dispenser on Westlund's chest--seen the Yale unis lately?--was looking more and more like a bullseye...