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...Normally, right after the candle-lighting, there would be a march around the property. "But last night there was an Aztec ceremony for 24 hours," Hannah explains to me, "so we're not doing a march." You can't take blood from a stone, people...
...most surprising thing about Hannah is that, for a woman who's been sleeping in a tree for almost two weeks, she doesn't smell. She attributes part of that to the flowers and herbs in the Aztec ceremony, but also because she takes a jury-rigged cold shower in the corn fields every few days. The one eventuality I am certain of in all of this is that we are less than a year away from a Daryl Hannah reality show...
...half necessary to create the traditional updo and makeup required of a Ballet Folklórico dancer—she will perform in the Danza Azteca piece “El Águila.” Wearing feathers and dancing as an eagle as a performance for the Aztec gods she will take part in a “tradition carried over for generations and generations...
...know for months or years -- how good these four will be as storytellers. Of course, it is possible that the year's peacemaking has merely lit a couple of candles on an altar that has been dedicated for centuries -- and is still dedicated -- to human sacrifice on an Aztec scale. Blessed are the peacemakers, and few in number. Still, in the words of Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations: ''The fact that Muslim and Jew, black and white, accept each other proves that war between civilizations is not inevitable. This sends out a global message...
...conflict began on a college campus, when, in 1968, collar popping was recognized by students in Princeton, New Jersey. They erected a vast Aztec-style temple complex dedicated to the popped collar on the site of today’s Frist Center. The conflict even extended to popular heroes of the day. Alan Shepard (from New Hampshire) popped his collar during his post-orbit press conference. John Glenn (from Ohio) did not. By the 1980s, popping one’s collar had become a fashion statement for sailors and rowers—golfers had given it up once sweater sets...