It felt like a collective defilement, a dance atop this concrete tomb of a basketball arena.

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But did it upset Condo to have his paintings treated in a manner that some fine artists might consider defilement twice over?

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Gypsy-gadje relations are made even trickier where traditional groups still observe laws shaped by a sense of imminent defilement, the idea (more understandable when framed within an Indian caste system) that contact with gadje, particularly sexual contact, is a kind of pollution punishable by banishment.

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