ABSTRACT
In March 1998 Beatrice Wood, the Mama of Dada, died in her studio in California, just days after she gave a party in honor of the director of the movie Titanic. The obituary said she was one hundred five, but she quarreled with the calculation. She always said that if scientists have showed that time is relative, and then she was thirty-two. Carnival, as Michael Bakhtin has described it, treasures the ambiguity and the transgressive potentials of the charade, and yet, in an ironic twist, upheavals such as carnival are sanctioned by the ruling bodies, and this act of acceptance ultimately reinstates their own power. As evolutionary psychologist David Buss, has said, "All around the world men are more interested in the youth and beauty of their sexual partners and less discriminating in their choice of partners than women are".
