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...this genre. It wants to combine The Maltese Falcon with the psychological and intellectual thrills of Rosemary's Baby and Don't Look Now. As Angel progresses deeper into his investigation, he is plunged into the world of voodoo worship and animal sacrifice. He witnesses Epiphany engage in a ritual sacrifice of chickens to the Dark Lord, has recurring hallucinations of orgies and encounters a masked, black-clad creature, culminating in the now infamous scene in which gallons of blood fall on him and young Proudfoot while they screw on his motel room...
Near the end of each week Senior Writer George Church pursues a late-evening ritual. Up and down, up and down, Church slowly paces the corridor of the Nation section in his stocking feet, puzzling out his story, drawing together elements from a welter of reportage and weaving those parts into the firm, seamless narratives that have made his writing almost legendary at TIME. Every so often on these jaunts a thoughtful grunt escapes his lips and he smiles in satisfaction. He then heads quickly back to his computer terminal to tap out the results of his stroll in paragraphs...
...culled from Kafka, particularly The Metamorphosis, are familiar; the actors sometimes find eerie pathos but often waver between lobotomized declamation and coarse accent comedy. And there is unattractive self-pity in the vision of an artist as a caged carnival act. Still, there are magic tricks, bursts of flame, ritual burials in a stage full of soil and stark tableaux echoing, or worthy of, Dali and Magritte. The words fade quickly. The images linger. W.A.H...
Freshmen spectators initiated the now-ritual reaction, which soon swelled to the rest of the crowd. "It's nice because I get pumped up," Hollensteiner said. "Obviously, freshmen don't get to play too much, so it helps...
Last year, the Harvard women's swimming team clinched its first-ever Ivy League championship with a 93-47 victory over Penn at Blodgett Pool. The squad celebrated by throwing Coach Maura Costin and others into the water, and followed this wet ritual by dancing and partying...