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Those art lovers packing the big Cezanne show in Philadelphia this summer are participating in the latest rite of American commerce: high culture as a profit center. With urban jobs and tax revenues shrinking, cities like Philadelphia eagerly seek blockbuster art shows to bring in the dollars. Major exhibits like New York City's 1992 Matisse retrospective can raise more moola than a Super Bowl or presidential convention. Chicago's four-month Monet show last year attracted nearly a million viewers and pulled $140 million into the area, surpassing the $109 million that Super Bowl XXX fans brought to Arizona...
...even the most dedicated transvestite could enjoy the annual rite of trying on bathing suits. All year long you've been judged by your efficiency, your creativity, your managerial talents--and suddenly, when you enter that fitting room, the only operative criteria are tilt of breasts and firmness of thighs. Where is the FDA when you need it? There should be warning labels on every suit: this product may be hazardous to your self-esteem...
ASYLUM GRANTED. To FAUZIYA KASINGA, 19, the woman who fled Togo to avoid a genital-mutilation rite; in Washington. The Immigration Appeals Board ruled that "this level of harm can constitute persecution...
Spectators, from those visiting Harvard Yard for the first time to those who have seen dozens of commencement ceremonies, said they were taken away by the splendor of the rite, which begins with the Middlesex County Sheriff calling the meeting to order by rapping a silver-headed staff on the podium and ends with the peals of bells from 17 churches throughout Cambridge...
...MORNING OF APRIL 15, 38,500 worshippers from all over the world will descend upon the tiny town of Hopkinton, Massachusetts. In a bizarre rite, they will shed most of their clothes, spread petroleum jelly over the more sensitive parts of their bodies and affix little timekeepers to their shoelaces. Then, as the appointed hour of noon approaches, they will either stand in line at one of the 750 portable toilets or, much to the chagrin of Hopkinton's 10,000 regular residents, go natural. At the report from a gun, they will try to race 26 miles...