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...Albertine 1:59.68 1000: 1. Traugott 2:34.61 3000: 1. Seidel 9:36.33, 2. Galebach 8:37.11, 3. Shenk-Boright 8:37.43 60 hurdles: 1. Adjah 8.52, 2. Hughes 8.78 4x400 relay: None 4x800 relay: None High Jump: 1. Emmanuel 2.03, 2. Buckley 1.92, 3. Wolf 1.87 Pole Vault: None Long Jump: 1. Adjah 6.83, 2. Hughes 6.65, 3. Buckley 6.49 Triple Jump: 1. Laine 14.23, 2. Hughes 13.94 Shot Put: 1. Ware 15.25, 2. Gelardi 14.88, 3. Hinson 14.24 Weight Throw: 1. Rhodes 13.81, 2. Preidis...
Orenstein locates the fairy tale’s earliest ancestor in a 17th-century oral folktale, “The Grandmother’s Tale,” and reproduces a version from the French countryside. Creepy and grotesque, the story is anything but a nursery rhyme. The wolf, waiting eagerly in bed, feeds the little girl (here, sans red riding hood) a jar of her grandmother’s blood and then coaxes her to perform a slow striptease. With each garment removed, he urges her, “Throw it on the fire, my child. You won?...
Once the story gets to 20th-century America, the characters undergo some radical revisions. In 1943, the animator Tex Avery turned Little Red into “Red Hot Riding Hood,” a Hollywood stripper, and the wolf into a lusty club-goer who springs into a “full-body erection.” Throughout the 1970s, the story became a regular feminist tool for calling attention to female victimization, and women repeatedly rewrote the story to cast Red as a triumphant heroine (stabbing the wolf with a sewing knife and wearing his fur), the wolf...
...dressing, fare less well. This can perhaps be blamed on the good old academic microscope. Is the wolf’s donning of the grandmother’s clothes really rife with suggestions of the construction of gender roles—or are modern-day images of a pregnant wolf meant only to be funny? The humor factor is, strangely enough, something Orenstein never discusses. She seems to view all of the latter-day Riding Hoods as cultural “replacements” of the old Grimm damsel, rather than as sly referents that implicitly acknowledge the endurance...
...first, Hare thought dogs might have retained their ability to read body language from their wolf ancestors, whose survival depended on knowing which way a deer would jump. He also considered the possibility that dogs learn how to read human cues over the course of their lives...