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...brother assaults her and dies for the offense. The links between Tamar and The Wonder-Worker are stronger than they at first appear to be. Sexual obsession, the disintegration of a family, the linkage between love and hate are evident in both. But where the biblical background of Tamar lent grief and madness some heroic grandeur, Jacobson's new book is furnished with the banalities and trivia of contemporary life...
Perhaps because Lent is no longer so austere as it used to be, the European Catholic tradition of carnival time -a brief spasm of bacchanalian indulgence that ends abruptly on Ash Wednesday-has virtually died out in Italy, France and even in Southern Germany. Munich's once-orgiastic Fasching, for instance, has dwindled to a single parade and a few tame costume balls. One area where the annual urge to let it all hang out is as strong as ever is the Rhineland with its century-old tradition of blowing off steam as a form of political expression. Last...
...naked woman in a red wig leaped wildly down the streets. Behind her marched a brass band with a mounted cannon; it fired candy at a crowd of more than 1 million people who lined Cologne's thoroughfares for the 151st annual carnival parade on the Monday before Lent. Parading or gawking, nearly everyone was in costume, and sidewalks were thronged with people dressed up as pirates, ducks and even gasoline pumps. One woman wore a full-length black body stocking-with two holes snipped out to expose her nipples. Several frowning, grumpy men sported greasepaint mustaches and sheets...
Safe Guess. The extraordinary disclosure suggested that the miners' slowdown, the three-day week, the strike and even the election all might have been averted, since it lent strong justification to the miners' main argument that they had fallen behind other workers in pay. On election eve Heath is expected to get more bad news when the January trade figures are released. The Labor Party's shadow Chancellor, Denis Healey, has predicted that they will be "hair-raising"-a fairly safe guess...
Dave Mason. Traffic and Delaney & Bonnie are the two best-known groups to which Dave Mason has lent his guitar-playing talents. He takes center stage himself Saturday, March 2, at the Orpheum Theater...