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...example: "the reading of the sports section is a tribal rite of passage for men, indicating that they, too, will take their place among the armchair major leaguers and couch/potato homerun hitters." Being a boy who has no interest in sports, I found the tone of the piece simplistic and sexist in its generalizations about...
...sense, the reading of the sports section is a tribal rite of passage for men, indicating that they, too, will take their place among the armchair major leaguers and couch potato/homerun hitters. Grownup men never seem to lose their fantasy of major league status, even if the closest they ever came was a hit with the bases loaded in second grade Little League...
...indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed in a tribal rite. The affair works its magic, and Millie blossoms, while Stan falters in his search. The warden is killed by poachers, but then a beautiful lion begins haunting the safari camp. The plot takes incredible turns, but Fabulist Ingalls (Mrs. Caliban), an American who has lived in London for 24 years, glides...
That achievement belonged to the pair that finished eighth, Isabelle Duchesnay and her brother Paul. Competing for France, though the two were % raised in Quebec, they skated -- quite literally -- to a different drummer. Shrugging out of classical ballroom-style routines, the Duchesnays performed a savage rite to the primitive rhythms of tribal drums. Like Torvill and Dean, the Duchesnays nudged the rigid rules of ice dancing, maintaining a single mood throughout their routine. (Not surprisingly, Dean was their choreographer.) The audience roared its approval, but the judges were unusually divided, their scores ranging from 5.0 to 5.8. Other skaters rallied...
Most of the Saturday shoppers at Janss mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., guessed they were seeing some kind of initiation rite. Eight men and two women took turns standing at attention outside Vons supermarket and shouting a song to a stern-faced man 75 ft. away. They all seemed oblivious of the curious onlookers, who were licking ice-cream cones and sipping soft drinks and beer on an unseasonably hot afternoon...