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...presidential race is usually a kind of rite of passage. However profligate the political excesses, however tawdry the rhetoric, American campaigns have traditionally stirred the national blood with some sense of men and issues in collision, of a people engaged in a rich and complex process of choice. It can be an exciting business -even a lot of fun in its extravagant buncombe intermixed with tense concentration on the highest power stakes...
...reason that Congressmen may seem lacking in their grasp of the larger affairs of state is that they spend so much of their two-year terms trying to get reelected. It can be a draining, humbling and sometimes compromising rite. The process does, however, keep Congressmen close to the people, and it produces a biennial crop of interesting political personalities. Herewith the pick of the 435 races now being contested...
Barth is fond these days of recounting the origin of Giles Goat-Boy, his next novel. It seems that critics of The Sot-Weed Factor began commenting on the similarity between that novel's protagonist and the archetypal mythic hero--with his innocence, his rite of sexual initiation, his quest and so on. Barth himself protests that such similarity was quite unconscious, but once alerted, he set out to make good use of it. Written with the same complexity of plot and wild comedy that filled The Sot-Weed Factor. Giles Goat-Boy is the tale of George Giles, Everyhero...
...Kubrick film will be temporarily withdrawn from theaters to allow the censors' scissors to transform it from an X- to an R-rated movie (children under 17 admitted with parent or guardian). After 60 days Clockwork will emerge from the Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter, and two "explicit" sex scenes totaling 30 seconds. One is a bedroom romp involving Alex and two willing girls; the other shows soldiers raping a girl. The changes, Warner Bros, hopes, will attract a wider audience. Some theaters refuse to show X movies...
...cord for first-degree witches, a red cord for second degree, and a magic knife called an othame. So far, not even Kelly has felt prepared to go for the highest degree, the green garter. Among other things, it involves a milder version of what Gardner called the "Great Rite," an act of ritual sexual intercourse. "Nobody in our coven," says Kelly, "has felt ready to take...