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...flaws, barely mentioning his constant philandering, his willingness to accept bribes, and what may have been a just for power. Indeed, Danton is almost a retelling of the story of Christine Jerusalem, with a triumphal entry into the city a passion a trial with criminals, renunclation by followers, and ritual murder. Wajda of course did not create these events in Danton's life, but his recounting stresses them...
...zombies are revived from their deathlike comas remains a mystery. Both Davis and Douyon heard stories about a graveyard ritual in which the bocor pounds on the earth and awakens the victim, but neither was able to witness it. Davis did learn that upon reviving, the zombie is force-fed a paste made of sweet potato and datura, a plant known to Haitians as zombie cucumber. Datura, says Davis, is "one of the most potent hallucinogenic plants known." Thus the zombie is led away in a state of intoxication, usually to work as a slave. Narcisse, who spent several years...
...dawn of revolution," said Carlos Fuentes in his Commencement address at Harvard last June, "reveals the total history of a community." An election is the ritual revolution of democratic government, a revolution more telling when it follows 16 years of one man's rule. In naming a new leader we reveal what in us that leader represents. For a newspaper that sees itself as another cog in the bureaucracy, it is enough to cover the candidates. It would be more difficult--and much more critical--to stand back and cover the city...
...carrying a single tall white candle, flanked them. As Archimandrite Polykarpos Athanassion intoned the solemn Greek of the nuptial liturgy, Jackie and Ari exchanged rings and wreaths of lemon blossoms, and drank wine from a single chalice. Then the priest led them round a table three times in the ritual dance of Isaiah. Traditionally in the dance, one of the newlyweds steps on his (or her) partner's foot to signify who will command in the marriage. None of the 25 guests admitted seeing such one-foot-upmanship...
...their own secret keel and we at Harvard should take up the challenge. Those obnoxious people across the hall who summer on The Vineyard could be our greatest asset. Wouldn't it be great to drink champagne out of the hallowed Cup the way hockey players do with their ritual chalice...