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Mohammed's successor, Ahmed I, added a new network of rooms. These became known as the Apartments of the Princes or, familiarly, the Cage. There, behind fences, male children were able to grow to manhood and even old age safe from almost any danger-or knowledge of the outside world. On occasion, an aggressive mother still managed to send an executioner-traditionally a deaf-mute eunuch-into the Cage to strangle her son's rivals...
Based on a florid Joseph Kessel novel, The Horsemen concerns a master Afghan rider named Uraz (Omar Sharif) who enters the game of buzkashi to assert his manhood and prove himself to his stern and demanding father (Jack Palance). Buzkashi, the national sport of Afghanistan that seems almost medieval in its ferocity, is a considerable test. Contestants ride fiercely against each other, struggling for possession of a headless goat that they must carry twice around the playing field before depositing it at the feet of their king. In the unrestrained fury of the competition Uraz breaks a leg and loses...
...surprise that Vermont has become the first state to grant 18-year-olds full majority [May 3]? It was also the first state to grant universal manhood suffrage (1777). In 1971 Vermont is not only granting voting rights to 18-year-olds but holding them accountable as well. This seems to be in keeping with its tradition rather than a departure...
...will to submission," Toback calls it. If he forgoes examination of the malady's finer points and racial implications, it isn't because he left his copy of Benito Cereno in New York. It is because Toback got so busy trying to certify his manhood in what he believes to be the black man's terms that submission was soon out of the question. So was the magazine article he had intended to write. But by the time that became apparent, Toback and "J.B." were good friends. This odd book is a fascinating chronicle of that very...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...