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...either the name of the dance or the provenience of the troupe that passed through Hilles on Saturday night. The dance is properly referred to as an Interpretative Bubble Dance, not, as you so crudely put it, a "balloon dance." The dance is an old and respected North House ritual; while we are open to dancers from everywhere, to the best of our knowledge none of us is affiliated with Adams House. In light of the growing literature on the Bubble Dance, including an extensive anthropological study done under Prof. Vogt, the Crimson's ignorance is, as ever, appalling. Holmes...
...courtly manner of a Spanish grandee. "Connie" was a man who loved ballroom dancing and opened almost all new Hilton hotels by taking to the empty dance floor with an attractive partner to perform an obscure European dance, the Varsoviana, which he regarded as a good-luck ritual...
...Southern football legend, the right name for the coach of Alabama. During the years before the South became the Sunbelt, football was its way of showing off to the nation, a source of deep, almost xenophobic pride. The conversation on the church steps Sunday mornings was an autumn ritual across the South. The Georgia people would crow, while Tennessee fans sulked and the interlopers from Florida had to listen to the abuse of the Auburn backers. The only time everyone agreed on anything was when one of "our teams" beat a Yankee school-the definition of Yankee being so broadly...
...living" Christmas tree to replace the one that was blown over last winter. (Yet another tree died the year before from Washington's heat.) For $1,500 and a place in history, the Myers blue spruce was sent to serve its country, but not without a parting ritual that might have been prescribed in Norman Rockwell's last will and testament...
Meanwhile, members of his own Likud coalition begged Begin not to go to Oslo. As Israeli Newspaper Columnist Amos Keinan put it, Begin's attendance at a peace celebration without a peace was "like celebrating the brith mila [Jewish circumcision ritual] while the baby is not yet born...