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...We’ll throw jokes in,” says Pudding President David J. Andersson ’09, known onstage as the bodacious and sequined Afro Dite. “We’ll change the joke to fit that audience...
...arsenal of witticisms just waiting to be unloaded. David J. Andersson ’09, in ass-flattering sequined bell-bottoms—one of the many striking designs fashioned by Costumer Annie E. Austin ’10—steals much of the show as Afro Dite, the soulfully sassy goddess of Love. Armed with arrows of “Love,” “Like,” and “I have feelings for you, but I’m just not ready for a committed relationship,” Afro Dite...
...finds made by Mary and others on his team, and he ascribed too much significance to each find. Endlessly charming, he attracted a retinue of adoring young women (including the future luminaries Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall), treating each, says Morell, "as if he were Paris handing Aph ro dite the prized apple." During World War II, he ran a British spy network against the Germans in East Africa. Later he used his intelligence skills against the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya...
...fabled Golden Aphrodite! Also known as Kallipygos (Beautiful Buttocks). Borne full-blown from the sea (aphros means foam; -dite rhymes with nightie). Worshiped for centuries by amorous couples coupling clamorously. She was Homer's Goddess of Pure and Heavenly Love, but we forget that Homer was blind. So, alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...
...convey. The Dallas Traviata used an intriguing gimmick by presenting the story as a long flashback, starting with Violetta on her deathbed visualizing the episodes leading up to her final illness. From the first curtain, when a soft light bloomed on the reclining Violetta, to the resignation of Dite alia giovine and the yearning of Parigi, O cara, Callas held her audience in a kind of hushed trance. Her tones were rock firm, aglow with a dozen nuances of passion, from hectic gaiety to quiet sadness. Callas scored an even bigger triumph in Cherubini's Medea. Whirling her heavy...