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...reincarnation, which the witches ardently believe in. Costume, obviously, is minimal: a white waist cord for first-degree witches, a red cord for second degree, and a magic knife called an othame. So far, not even Kelly has felt prepared to go for the highest degree, the green garter. Among other things, it involves a milder version of what Gardner called the "Great Rite," an act of ritual sexual intercourse. "Nobody in our coven," says Kelly, "has felt ready to take...
...dreamland inhabited by Rosie Probert, the love of his younger years. For Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard (Joanne Ray), the past lives on in the ghosts of her two late husbands, who are forced to share the hellish hygiene of their window's house and her emasculating bed. Polly Garter (Debi Neipris), the generous town whore and loving mother of countless bastards, mourns a deal lover in songs of piercing beauty, while ironically scrubbing the floor of the Welfare Hall for the Mothers' Union Social Dance. And adeptly jumping the generations to become the community's beloved grandmother. Neipris merrily counts each...
...author of All on a Summer's Night went on to offer some puckish notions as to how an American aristocracy might be titled. First minister in the court of King Richard would be Spiro, Duke of Maryland; then would come such lesser dignitaries as Knight of the Garter Henry Kissinger and Companion of Honor Bebe Rebozo. In the Midwest, it would be Earl Humphrey of Minnesota. And in the Southwest, the vast estates of Earl Pedernales and Lady Pedernales-"Not," Edelman cautioned, "Lady Lady Bird...
Marshalls of the march passed out statements of the group's demands to watchers and pasted women's liberation stickers to buildings along the route. At Faneuil Hall one of the marchers tied a garter to the thigh of Samuel Adam's statue which read "We want day care...
...Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "because." I am the New Woman whose astonishing history is a poignant amalgam of vulgar dreams and knife-sharp realities. Soon, by an extreme gesture, I shall cease altogether to be human and become legend like Jesus, Buddha, Cybele...