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...even do more harm than good. In some places the threat of punishment has pushed the practice underground, leading to an increased possibility of botched operations. In Odienné, northwestern Ivory Coast, festivities surrounding the excision ritual are now modest affairs. "People used to hold great fêtes," says Mabana Touré, 37. "Streets were blocked off, there was music and the girls would run around town all made-up and dressed in special clothes. Now, we might have a special meal together in the house - something much more discreet, because people are scared...
...Giddins works overtime to give Bing his props and chops. He sees the Crosby style as an extension and domestication of Armstrong's pioneering, growling scatmanship. He notes that in 1927 Bing haunted the Chicago boîtes where Satch was wowing the hip world with his innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist; and that the Rhythm Boys often interpolated scat, as comic relief, in their tunes...
...Advocate house was once a prime venue for other groups to rent. Last fall however, Advocate Publisher John M. DeStefano '01 sent an ominous message to Pfoho Open, the campus repository of usually useless information, stating that the Advocate was no longer available for future fêtes. Inquiries into the Advocate's policy change led to conflicting tales concerning its party potential. V. Yioula Sigounas '00, outgoing Advocate publicity manager, claimed that an infamous shindig held by the ever-racous Crimson Key led to the change in policy. The crimson-clad boozers rented out the building and proceeded...
...begins in April. For the first time, couples living together will have the option to designate themselves "unmarried partners." The bureau has not yet said whether it will get explicit about the precise sexual and emotional relationship that distinguishes "unmarried partners" from another category in the survey, "housemates-roomma tes." (Those who have to ask can perhaps be assumed to be merely roommates...
Watteau managed to skim off Rubens' lustrous surface and endow it with a still greater sense of nuance, while leaving his master's tyrannous physicality behind. To look at his fētes champětres -those felicitously idealized gatherings of young lovers, planted on the unchanging lawn of a social Eden-is to think of pollen and silk, not flesh. Watteau was a great painter of the naked body, but his nudes tend to privacy and reflection. They are completely unlike Rubens' magniloquent blond wardrobes. He seems, for this reason, the more erotic artist...