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...witch, there is highly formalized sexual intercourse. But Sanders insists that only those who are married or engaged to each other can partake of this ceremony, in which man and woman represent the sun and moon in fruitful conjunction. New witch recruits must be content to kneel before the altar and receive 40 purifying strokes across the buttocks. Some covens use whips made with shoelaces that may leave permanent scars. But Alex's group, Miss Johns reassuringly reports, uses a silver whip with thongs of embroidery silk...
...enormous pile of human bones lying outside the processing plant in Dog Years. Leaps of Grass's imagination incongruously link references to obscure moments in Polish and German history, folklore, pop songs and blasphemous echoes from the Catholic Mass (relics of Grass's days as an altar...
...Marshall is a magisterial figure in the pulpit. On his clerical robes, he wears the cross-in-the-fist button of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, and the black, red and green "liberation"* colors-which are evident elsewhere in the church: on a prayerbook on the altar, in a flag on the wall...
...will not sacrifice Chairman Bobby Seale on the altar of inter-racial harmony if white people continue to sit back and allow this ghastly plot to go forward. So if the so-called freedom-loving white people of America do not stand up now... this will mean the end of our dreams for the class war which America needs and the beginning of the race war which America cannot endure...
...anemic narrative of a boozy loser and his new-found chick. Pianist Joe Grady (Beatty) plays gigs at a downtown bar, trying to raise the fare to New York and a fresh start. Fran (Taylor) is a chorine waiting for her paramour to obtain a divorce and altar her situation. In a matter of moments, Fran and Joe become casual lovers playing for time-and losing. He keeps dicing away his savings; Mr. Right fails to come to her rescue on schedule. While they run in place, Gilroy furnishes them with crapped-out dialogue: "I've met some nuts...