Mr. Bushkin writes that his initiation was intense.
His initiation test is to bust into Walt's garage and steal his treasured Gran Torino.
Like the other Pygmies, he underwent his initiation, or lutende (in Mbuti), during months of isolation in the forest.
"You get beat up, put into it, inducted," Storyboard said of his initiation into the flex scene.
Through his initiation he is believed to have gone through death and thus conquered it.
However, when he campaigns, he often says that he met with Mr. Giuliani, at his initiation, three weeks before the mayor announced the program.
His initiation into collecting came through Taft Schreiber, a vice-president of MCA-Universal and a great collector of twentieth-century European and American art.
But he, too, writes with comic brio, even when describing his initiation into a hustler's life (the title is slang for teenage prostitute) in Los Angeles.
Nathaniel Vinton, the newest member of the I-Team, took a seat next to Thompson and recalled his initiation into the beat, a year ago.
As part of his initiation at Gordonstoun, Prince Charles, aged 13, is said to have been caged naked in a basket and left under a cold shower.
Kevin Lawless, 18, of Brooklyn, died after he was made to drink large quantities of beer, wine and vodka during his initiation, Mrs. Pirro said.
