Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the emotionless rite has a permanently damaging effect on Steve's (and Bullins's) attitude towards women. Women are seen as sexual objects and survival of the male ego becomes dependent on crushing the female's. "You sonna bitch," Velma, the lonely housewife Steve seduces and mistreats in The Duplex, curses. "You're a sonna bitch," the first black woman he rapes in The Reluctant Rapist cries out as he defiles her. But instead of being offended by the epithets, he wears them boldly as though they were testimonials to his manliness. For Bullins the only law that operates...
...just happened to be in the Square when three nude Pi Etas dashed through in their initiation rite. Rule felt gypped, conceding, "You know, this is an interesting place. But it's strange. Very strange...
That annual rite of fall in Manhattan - the convening of the U.N. General Assembly - got off to a celebrity-studded start last week. The undisputed star of the show was Henry Kissinger...
...sponsored an anniversary service for Marilyn in strictly Buddhist style. In the main hall there were the usual representations of the Buddha, curling smoke from incense bars and deep-throated chanting of sutras by a monk with a drinking party later. But there was one variation in the ancient rite: a large still of Marilyn from The Seven Year Itch in front of the altar. In that setting, Marilyn's delight might even suggest satori...
...three eminent Macbeths of the time--William Charles Macready, Thomas Hamblin, and Edwin Forrest. These performances led to what has become known as the Astor Place Riot--the worst fracas in theatrical history, besides which even the celebrated free-for-all in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seems pale. At the final tally in New York, 31 persons were killed and more than 150 injured. Such is the incredible power of Macbeth. Even in an age with less belief in witches than obtained in the Jacobean era, perhaps we must ascribe some of the work...