Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned about an aspect of Indian culture earlier this fall. I visited the Sackler Museum exhibit on art from the Kotah. I went because I wanted to see art, to feast my eyes on color and beauty, not because I wanted to learn about Indian culture. But at the exhibit I managed to do both. The text accompanying each painting put the pictures in the context of Indian folklore, colonial history and regional geography. By touting cultural events as representative of a whole culture and people, ethnic groups run the risk that, for example, people who disliked one Latin Dance...
That day--our "feast of Crispian"--won more than a simple victory. We came together as a school, watching and celebrating and relaxing. Ahren Rittershaus wrote "Die Prep" with duct tape on his sweatshirt, and during the second half, we sang TV theme songs from "Different Strokes" to "The Jeffersons...
Similarly, the scene in which the ghost of the murdered Bhangane appears at Mabatha's coronation feast remains extraordinarily powerful in translation: wearing a huge, white wooden mask and long twists of rope representing his "gory locks," he is a terrifying apparition as he stomps ominously across the stage, pointing at the murderous King and intoning "Mabatha! Mabatha! Mabatha!" This is one of the joys of watching Umabatha: it succeeds in creating an alchemical marriage between the old story and the new setting...
What a spectacle, a feast for the senses! Foxboro Stadium, the home of the New England Patriots, was awash with people, filling not only the regular football seating but also cramming the playing field. The stage, an enormous construction dominated by speakers, lights and immense curtains, was set up where one endzone would be. When the Stones took the stage, the curtains parted part way and a gigantic oval-shaped screen literally exploded into existence, shooting flares out over the audience...
...first-year living in Pennypacker Hall, Sonesh S. Chainani '99 went to the Hong Kong Restaurant at least once a week to feast on rice and soup...