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...English winter," confessed the perspiring Prince. Diana, for her part, was kept in the shade, both physically and socially, reflecting the local tradition of keeping men and women separate. During a visit with the Omani Women's Association, the Princess witnessed the re-enactment of a traditional marriage-eve ritual. Told that the bride must stay awake in bed all night so as not to disturb the henna markings on her hands and feet, Diana remarked, "Poor bride." Later the Princess set Arab tongues wagging when she appeared in a lilac silk- crepe jacket, worn over a mid-calf-length...
What's in a name? For many, the indication that they are descendants of craftsmen: smiths, coopers, millers, weavers. Primo Levi, 67, is an Italian Jew whose surname suggests ties to those members of the Levite tribe who were entrusted with guarding the sacred tabernacle. Not ritual priests but deacons, Levites were workers with practical tasks to perform. Appropriately, Levi came to writing through chemistry. For 30 years he worked for a Turin paint manufacturer. Before that he was the unwilling employee of the Nazis, who recruited him at Auschwitz for his technical skills. While millions died for what they...
...propel an idea that is, well, dumb. Landis made a werewolf movie that is nothing more than a werewolf movie; a pity, because it could have conveyed more profound sentiments than "Yikes!" Landis said he got the idea in 1969, when while traveling through Yugoslavia, he saw a ritual peasant burial to guard against corpses rising from the grave. "What would happen if that body got up?" he recalled asking himself. "I'm totally unequipped to deal with the living dead...
...between a ruling and its context. It is the societal context, not the character of a court proceeding, that should be the measure of a case. But in this case the court merely judged how well the fundamentalists did on stage. The textbook case reduced the trial to a ritual. There is always an aspect of performance to courtroom proceedings, but in this extreme case the performance lost touch with the issues at hand...
...this some obsucre tribal ritual? Performance art? Haight-Ashbury, circa...