Word: eleusinian
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Waldman-a writer prone to detect the Eleusinian mysteries at the bottom of every rabbit hole-interprets as a recovery of myth. All the work is extremely knowing. Its images, from Pisani's impenetrably hermetic Rosicrucian allegories to Ontani's pale face photographed as Dante Alighieri, in red hood and laurel wreath, all hang suspended in double or even triple sets of quotation marks. One can have quite a lot of pick-the-reference fun in this show without getting much in the way of aesthetic thrills...
Vassar's vestal mysteries are not always so explicit. This most female of novels is calculated to make the male reader feel like an involuntary voyeur, as if he had blundered into a contemporary version of the Eleusinian mysteries. Is there some kind of sex war going on? Certainly, it is made clear that the task of fitting man into Vassar's vision of perfection is hard indeed...
...rhythm of Negro music and singing, with magic borrowed from a dozen lands, and finally with the beauty and color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
Warns Bill Martin: "Inflation leads to deflation and costs people their jobs. Our biggest bugaboo is unemployment." Eleusinian Mysteries. To lay this bogey, Martin is vigorously wielding the potent weapons at his command. Although every man, woman and child...
...affected by what he does, few under stand how he does it. To most credit users the operations of the Fed are as incomprehensible as the Eleusinian mysteries. Basically, the Fed operates on three main fronts: ¶ One of the quickest and easiest ways of tightening credit is to hike the discount rate, the interest that the Federal Reserve charges member banks for short-term loans. This tends to raise commercial interest rates and discourage marginal borrowing. In the past 17 months the FRB has raised the discount rate six times, boosted it to the highest level (3%) since...