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Confession is a religious ritual and a literary device, a point that John Gregory Dunne has illustrated a number of times during his career as a U.S. journalist and novelist. For example, Vegas (1974) was an unflattering, candid account of a bad time in the author's life, an on-the-road book that played personal problems against the city that passes for Sodom, U.S.A...
...real prehistoric," says Fordham University biologist Mark Botton, a New York Giants cap perched on his curly black hair, as he ambles down the beach just feet from the frenzy. "We call it a random-collision process," he says, describing the orgiastic mating ritual of the world's largest population of horseshoe crabs. "It's just like billiard balls...
Perhaps in the end, then, the thing that separates us most from Shakespeare is simply his belief in fairies who can solve all our confusions by going above the heads of lawmakers. The classic premise of comedy, and the ritual revelry from which it springs, is of a story that concludes with a vision of unity, of natural harmony. So, after all the lunacies and bumps of Shakespeare's starlit night are over, the spirits come down to put everything to right, and the lovers awaken with the morning lark only to suspect that it was all a dream. Love...
...across the plains every summer weekend are powwow reunions dedicated to preserving Indian language and folkways. A score of modest vans and trailers descend on the meeting points. Tepees dot the periphery. Over bowls of venison soup and yellow hominy, knots of Indians chew over native rights and tribal ritual. At Flandreau, S. Dak., Isanti Sioux Bill Gilbert, 32, a cook at an Indian school, prepares to dance in ceremonial gear of eagle feathers and porcupine quills. "It brings people together and gives a chance to get away from rush, rush, rush," he sighs...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski had spoken and returned to his seat beside George Bush in the Polish Parliament, Bush reached over and patted the Communist boss's forearm. A little later, clustered with some newly chartered Polish Little Leaguers, he scooped up the grinning kids and pulled them close for the ritual team picture...