Word: rites
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...standard postgraduate journey for 19th century young English ladies and gentlemen was the Grand Tour of Europe, a lengthy buffet of the best art, architecture and?for the men?wenches that the Continent had to offer. Today's overmedicated, under-careered university graduates have come up with their own rite of passage: backpacking through Asia. It might be more of a slouch than a Grand Tour, but at least it's edgy...
...VALERY GERGIEV/KIROV ORCHESTRA The Rite of Spring (Philips) Igor Stravinsky's clamorous ballet score has now received a quintessentially Russian recording: violent, brazen, full of all the blunt power of passionate peasant ritual. Gergiev has been making a big impression as principal guest conductor of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and this CD leaves no doubt...
...Valery Gergiev/Kirov Orchestra The Rite of Spring (Philips) Igor Stravinsky's clamorous ballet score has now received a quintessentially Russian recording: violent, brazen, full of all the blunt power of passionate peasant ritual. Gergiev has been making a big impression as principal guest conductor of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and this CD leaves no doubt...
...alternative rite of passage, which in one Kenyan language is known as circumcision through words, commonly involves a period of seclusion for the girls. Elder women teach them health issues including the dangers of aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. Sometimes a group of girls is taken to a local school or hall and shown films about the dangers of FGM. The week often ends with a party. "We are not against people's customs, we are against the cutting," says Traoré Dosso Mariam, secretary-general of the Ivorian Association for the Defence of Women's Rights, which encourages...
There is one inevitable rite of passage for A-list actors eager to prove range: the period role. After all, it's easy to look like a leading man while firing an M-16; less so while wearing tights. Aussie hunk HUGH JACKMAN'S Danskin moment arrives in the upcoming contempo-period piece hybrid, Kate & Leopold. In the film, Jackman portrays a 19th century English duke transported to the 21st century who--what else?--grows smitten with a Manhattan corporate climber (MEG RYAN). Having depicted high-testosterone men in X-Men and Swordfish, he says the role...