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When I was a kid, before I understood the importance of appearances and tokenism, I was a hard-headed pragmatist in the best free-enterprise tradition. Gifts were rewards for behavior I approved of; on occasion I would inform my younger brother that if he didn't give me the...
In the mountain village of Jamaran, two miles north of the capital, the corridors of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's modest house buzzed like a beehive. Turbaned mullahs, ostensibly come to congratulate the Ayatullah on the anniversary of Mab'ath, the day God chose Muhammad as his Prophet, seized...
Answer: a great cultural ritual was being enacted. The occasion, two weeks ago, was the graduation program of the Moscow Academic Choreographic School, training arm of the 204-year-old Bolshoi. The young dancers were making their traditional debuts on the stage where they hope one day to reign as...
A the long, black Lincoln Continenal pulled up to the West Wing of the White House last week, presidential staff members gathered on the lawn and crowded onto the balconies of the adjacent old Executive Office Building. The occasion had all the drama of a summit conference, and, in a...
Six long-stemmed can-can dancers kick, whirl and cartwheel, split, shimmy and pirouette to Offenbach's rollicking La Vie Parisienne. In a reverse striptease, a comely Victorian lass in black stockings and garter belt dresses up in corset and crinoline for a grand occasion orchestrated by Strauss. The...