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...whose protagonists are members of a group of exiles, their guards and the official visitors, focusing on the complex relationship between them. Situated on a barren island, with the strong wind and burning sun, this closed society symbolizes a concentration camp with its imaginary characters participating in a rhythmic ritual, while searching for human dignity and the essence of things...
...Wiggins). If Pink wants to stay on the football team, he has to sign a new anti-drug and alcohol agreement; all of his teammates have signed already with every intention of disregarding the pledge. He resists doing so. Mitch, as a new first-year, has to undergo the ritual hazing from the upperclass guys, and since his sister is a popular senior he's going to get it especially bad. Can he undergo public humiliation and still play it cool...
...luminous day earlier this summer, a small group clustered on the Truman Balcony of the White House for a get-acquainted ritual given by Hillary Rodham Clinton. A visiting choir was singing below in the Rose Garden to the President. The flowers were voluptuous, the iced tea tangy. Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster moved through the group, hunching his shoulders so that he was closer to the shorter guests, a beaded chain holding his White House pass hanging outside his pinstripe suit -- a shackle perhaps. But that is an afterthought...
...every eye stays fixed on the building's summit, where the king, his head adorned with feathers, his scepter a two-headed crocodile, is about to emerge from a sacred chamber with instructions from his long-dead ancestors. The crowd sees nothing of his movements, but it knows the ritual: lifted into the next world by hallucinogenic drugs, the king will take an obsidian blade or the spine of a stingray, pierce his own penis, and then draw a rope through the wound, letting the blood drip onto bits of bark paper. Then he will take the bark...
...Maya filed their teeth (it's unclear whether they used an anesthetic), sometimes into a T shape and sometimes to a point. They also inlaid their teeth with small, round plaques of jade or pyrite. According to Coe, young men painted themselves black until marriage and later engaged in ritual tattooing and scarring...