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However, upon closer examination, the storydoesn't appear to be necessarily focused on theatrocities that Pinkerton enacts againstButterfly. Interestingly, Butterfly is neverreferred to as "Madame Pinkerton," except byherself, even after her marriage. Rather, as thetitle suggests, the story is perhaps moreevocative of CioCio San's rite of passage from"Butterfly" to "Madame Butterfly...
...start of a lecture to plug an upcoming jam, more offbeat spectacles have taken place. In December, the Phoenix S.K. final club sent its new members to Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres" to show off their legs and moves while dancing to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." In another unrelated incident, another final club initiate grunted through "Astronomy 14" and "Economics 1011" dressed as a caveman...
Overeducated fans turn baseball into "text." One historian sees the game as an American fertility rite. A professor of English at the University of Rochester, George Grella, has written that "while (baseball) radiates a spiritual transcendence, it also expresses a parallel paradoxical quality of sadness...it instructs us in two crucial American concepts, the loneliness of space and the sadness of time...
Gadgets that buzz and stuff that explodes, LEDs that twinkle and digital commodes. Big piles of wire and pickled her-rings, These are a few of my fav-o-rite things...
After performing what Kelly called "a sort of Cliff-Notes version of The Rite of Spring, complete with sacrificial virgin," the students ran out of Sanders Theatre accompanied by applause and cheers from the class...