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...those interested in the intersection of government policy and the arts, however, one prediction may be made. With the elephants nervously trumpeting about cultural values, the already much embattled National Endowment for the Arts will come in for some more ritual trampling...
...three shows and directed a Nigerian play.As president of the Harvard African StudentsAssociation, he brought African guests to Harvardand organized an Africa Week, with speakers,music, food, and dances. He told African folktalesat Cultural Rhythms. (He did not learn the talefrom an elder back home during a smoky ritual,though. "I cheated," he says. "I found a book offolktales in narrative form in the stacks ofWidener...
...ritual required before graduation to see the strip tease," says Munson...
...pair, complementary. They are choreographed like mtv, performed by Road Warriors. The Rodney King video shows cops in the stylized tribal rioting that men in groups on dangerous excursions sometimes use as a form of bonding -- solidarities of atrocity on the late shift. The truck-driver video looked like ritual sacrifice, the helicopter circling overhead, the rioters circling the trucker's flung body. Both videos recorded naked power dances, conscienceless, brainless, evil, pain inflicting: I have your life under my boot. To look at them last week was to see Americans of both races going backward at the speed...
Executions in past centuries were public events -- part ritual of citizenship, part savage entertainment. Every self-respecting English town had its gallows. As prisoners were carted from jail to noose, their friends along the route passed them strong drink and might turn the last mile into a macabrely hilarious rolling party. Later, the decorous 19th century thought it more humane and seemly to execute people out of sight, behind the prison walls...