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...will rally at least eight of his twelve children, load them with his wife Lucille into the family's gray 1980 Chevy Citation (a veteran of 105,000 dusty miles) and head to Union Township's caucus in nearby West High School for the clear and open ritual of boosting Massachusetts Democratic Governor Mike Dukakis. No back-room dealing for Seelman. And no pussyfooting on the tough issues. "The Dukakis farm plan is not as good as Gephardt's," says Seelman, whose land has been in the family for more than 150 years. "It's just the sense...
...Family has a Christmas-time ritual. When the Grinch rears his ugly head and the wintry winds begin to whip wildly westward (making Chicago very cold), we pack up the family station wagon and head south. To Florida...
...splashy an entrance as Joyce's stately, plump Buck Mulligan in his yellow dressing gown, "bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." Yet there is a strained relationship. Buck begins Joyce's stream of subversive epiphanies with a mockery of religious ritual, and Pat launches Thomas Flanagan's The Tenants of Time with a polite spoof on the rituals of orthodox history. Prentiss is a young Irish pedant, fresh out of New College, Oxford, and itching to write a book about a failed nationalist uprising in 1867. The final skirmish, known...
...effort: the "body count," for example, or the "light at the end of the tunnel," the longed-for illumination, never seen, that would indicate that victory and salvation were near. At the close of 1967, the official invocation of the light at the end of the tunnel was still ritual. The New York Times, influenced by Government briefings, reported in late December that "military indicators in Viet Nam present the most dramatic and clear-cut evidence of progress in the war since the dark days...
...country where ritual is often the closest thing to religion, Mickey- san's Imperial Palace has in less than five years become something of a national pilgrimage site. In 1987 roughly 1 million schoolchildren, who would previously have been taken to Japan's great historical sites, were brought to the park. Last week, as people across the nation gathered at shrines to usher in an auspicious New Year, Tokyo Disneyland stayed open for 36 straight hours, serving as a kind of alternative temple. By day's end 200,000 votaries had observed the country's most important holiday...