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KATIE DAVIS ENJOYS READING stories about kids who are a few years older than she is. As school ended for the summer, she started Lizard Music by D. Manus Pinkwater. "I love it," Katie says enthusiastically. "It's about a boy who is twelve. He's remembering last summer when he was eleven and his parents were away. He's left with his sister, but then his sister goes away for the weekend with these hippies at a camp. I don't know yet how it ends but maybe, because of the title, the boy will meet a lizard that...
...another, he has gamely donned a cowboy hat and an Indian headdress. Just returned from a four-day visit to the Commonwealth state of Papua New Guinea, Charles has of course acquired yet another item for his collection of ethnic headgear. Upon his arrival at the tropical island of Manus, Charles was officially named...
Lapan, or chief, and promptly crowned with a dog's-tooth headpiece containing a beaded Union Jack. The Prince thereupon declared in Melanesian pidgin English: "Wuroh, wuroh, wuroh, all man men bi-long Manus." Translation: "Thank you, all men and women of Manus." Well, what else could...
...played out against the right backdrop: Irish locations, filmed lovingly by Gerry Fisher, and a cast of splendid faces, as hard and gnarled as blackthorn walking sticks. As directed by Jack Gold, Catholics fairly aches with monkish verisimilitude. When Kinsella's arrival at the abbey prompts Father Manus (a delightful cameo by Cyril Cusack) to rustle up a feast of fresh salmon, the viewer can almost taste...
...legal precedents for discrimination against women date back to the beginnings of Western law itself.* In the classic era of Athens, women fitted approximately the same category as slaves. Early Roman law candidly referred to the "perpetual tutelage of women" and considered them to be under the manus (hand) of their fathers or husbands-one basis for the custom of bestowing the "hand" of a daughter in marriage. Though later Roman law began to extend a few rights to women, the coming of the Dark Ages took them back to the status of chattels. Passing through canon law into English...