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Many of the partiers—many wearing just wet bathing suits—seemed to remain spirited, and most were waiting to return to the party once it reopened. While the exact number of students at the party at the time is not available, Mather House Council had sold over 450 tickets, according to David L. Billing Jr. '11, a HoCo co-chair...
...parents to show our respect," says Mie Duc Hong, a 40-year-old Dai woman who lives in the Yunnanese village of Manchunman. "Then we could go splash our friends. It was a lot of fun. But it wasn't like it is now where people get so wet. We just sprinkled them with drops of water, not whole basins full." Zheng Peng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body, told the official government news agency Xinhua that this year people ought to splash water...
...villages (Mie Duc Hong's community is one of them), the annual tradition has strayed furthest from its tranquil origins. There, the water-splashing portion of the festival is organized in a shallow pool every day at 3:30 p.m. Cable describes the spectacle as a "large-scale wet-T-shirt contest." For $5, tourists can rent plastic basins for splashing each other and scantily-clad Dai women. "Authenticity is much less important than entertainment in China," says Cable. "Tourists don't come to see authentic rituals. They come to see outrageous ones." The park, which...
...floor. (Writer/director Shana Feste has made the Brewers rich, and you can almost hear her pitch to the studio, filled with longing for the profound: "See, they had everything, but now, without Bennett, nothing.") All the Sarandon grief moves are there: the defiant head lift, the wide, wet eyes, the clenched fists, the accusations hurled at Allen for his lack of emotion; The Greatest often feels like a mash-up of Sarandon's greatest grief hits. (See TIME's 2009 video of 10 Questions with Susan Sarandon...
Pepper said that there is water under the floors of both rooms, and despite wet-vacuuming efforts made by the custodial staff, the Treehouse and Dance Studio still look more like swimming pools than they should...