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...tundra of New Hampshire, the sparkling sands of Arizona's diamond desert. But now they go where no Republican presidential candidates have gone before: into a contested New York State primary. And, like explorers of earlier ages treading upon virgin land, they must confront a terrifying New York political ritual: the food...
Abstract painting lapsed into mannerism in Europe by the late 1930s, and was revived in America by artists who discarded its utopian fantasies and replaced them with ideas related to epic space, primitive ritual, spontaneous gesture and the sublime. But who today still buys the rhetoric that surrounded Abstract Expressionism--all that oracular guff about existential confrontation, tragedy, timelessness and how we're locking horns with Michelangelo...
However, religious choice has never had free reign in our society. It is illegal to sacrifice animals for ritual purposes, not to speak of killing human beings. Although religious freedom is one of the foundational values of the United States, as a society, we have made a claim for the universal value of life. The Minnesota State Court of Appeals that decided in favor of Mr. Lundman directly addressed the issue of freedom of religion as delineated in the First Amendment. In the words of the Court: "Although one is free to believe what one will, religious freedom ends when...
...these disquieting visions before. There was an episode in 1982, when I was convinced that a couple vacationing in the Caribbean had witnessed a voodoo-economics ritual. In a jungle clearing, they'd watched people chanting "VOOdoo, VOOdoo--trickle, trickle, trickle, trickle...
...mistress. Their bizarre, frequently incomprehensible exchange, in which erotic and violent impulses are mingled, is broken off suddenly by the sound of an alarm clock--the real Madame is about to come home, and we learn that Claire has been wearing her clothes as part of a play-acting ritual...