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WHAT STRAVINSKY'S Rite of Spring did for music, what Gutenberg did for journalism, what the internal combustion engine did for auto racing, Bally's Wizard has now done for pinball. Every so often an entire field of human endeavor is picked up, turned over, and shaken like a dusty carpet--and when the air clears we can say for certain that a part of our lives will never again be the same. And that is what is being said by the small, but ever increasing stream of visitors to the Underdog on Bow Street: visitors who, as often...
Only six days after the threat to his life by Squeaky Fromme, President Ford last week was back doing what comes naturally: plunging into the crowds and pressing flesh with the people. It was the familiar rite-but this time there were some unsettling differences...
...Coming Out: A Rite of Passage...
Mixer: You've made it through the week, and then this had to happen. It may be a real rite de passage, but usually it just sends freshmen back to their rooms to write letters to girl and boy friends back home. The mixer is much like renting a room for your senior prom and finding out when you walk in that 12 other schools have also booked the hall that night. Go, if only to give you something to talk about for the next ten weeks...
Such melodrama tics, Minuchin believes, bring about a temporary exorcism of the anoretic's fear of open disagreement with her parents and become a rite of passage. The girl will eventually begin to eat, but the next problem is to keep her from slipping back to her old ways. Family therapy is then begun; parents and child get together with Minuchin for sessions in which they discuss their underlying pressures and conflicts...