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There were no searchlights, no gaudy limousines unloading celebrities. The crowd that packed the huge Moscow Moviemakers Club auditorium on Jan. 20 wore modest dresses and suits rather than gowns and tuxedos. And in another contrast to Hollywood custom, the film's director appeared onstage after the screening, not just to take a bow but to listen as members of the audience stood up one by one to comment on his film...
...could: abduct, torture, shoot, behead and bury their enemies in mass and secret graves. What they hoped most recently, since ending their "dirty war" of antiterrorism. was that the issue of the desaparecidos would itself disappear. If the newly elected President of Argentina, Raul Alfonsin, had any sense of custom or propriety, that is precisely what would have happened. But Alfonsin seemed unaware that one does not put the military on trial; and, in any event, graves seemed to be popping up all over the countryside at an alarming rate; and there were those irritating women, of course, relentless ambulatory...
...example where tolerance may be misdirected, he cited the Eskimo custom of leaving their elderly in the cold to die when they can no longer support themselves...
...Christian tradition. Jewish Scripture and liturgy include ancient prayers of confession of sins, and the most solemn period in Judaism's ceremonial calendar is Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement. In Catholic Christianity the sacrament reached its classic form by the 11th century; five centuries later the custom developed of holding confession in a booth, with penitent and priest speaking to each other through an opening in a partition. So strict is the privacy that a Catholic priest is forbidden even to reveal knowledge about crimes acquired under the confessional "seal...
People prone to forget their spouse's birthday can stay out of trouble with the $19.95 Laser Days datebook, which is custom-designed to remind them of as many as 20 important occasions. Marketed by Cleveland's Initial Concepts, the computer-printed calendar displays the customer's name on each page and gives a one-month advance notice of upcoming events...