Word: medievales
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In medieval times, a series of customs developed around "Hallow E'en" (Hallow Evening), many deriving at least in part from the holiday's earlier pagan incarnation. It became traditional to eat nuts and apples; the nuts were especially important because young girls were encouraged to watch them as they...
"A Royal Halloween: The King's Costume Ball." (Tonight, 8 p.m., Medieval Manor Theatre Restaurant $32 per person, reservations required.)
A parody of the "Medieval Times" show and dinner, the Medieval Manor Theatre Restaurant offers a "bawdy musical comedy" full of singing, dancing and jokes that, while all in good fun, are definitely "not G-rated," according to employee Jennifer Goodfellow.
The set design is artistically suggestive: the oppressive weight and opulence of Macbeth's medieval stone castles has been admirably conveyed by designer Roxanne Lanzot '99 with two moving arches, swinging doors, a pole and a curtain, a single rough-hewn dais at the back. And the shifting light cast...
The toll such measures take on Afghan women is impossible to assess. Several told us how dispiriting it is to be thrown off a bus or forced to sit in the back. We heard reports of an increase in the suicide rate among females, and that many have sunk into...