Word: holy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touching story, but one could wish Director Nair had skipped some of the melodramatic touches. Sweet Sixteen's deflowering, for example, takes place during the festival of Holi, a spring rite in which red dye symbolic of the menstrual flow adorns the particpants. Under the auspices of a float of the elephant-headed god Ganesh, whose long trunk is considered phallic, Sweet Sixteen is pushed into a taxi to take her to her first sexual encounter...
...announce a complicated new program on a holiday. If you choose your holidays wisely, maybe pick one that follows a holi-night like New Year's Eve, chances are newspaper staffs, already working on holiday schedule and reeling from the previous night's revelry, won't be their usual analytical selves...