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...nothing else about today's Harvard-Yale showdown is certain, you can bet that Yale senior defensive end Jack Kelley tried to remember to bring his sandals to Cambridge. It's been a ritual with Kelley for quite some time now--sun or snow, at home or away, he dons those sandals for the walk to the pre-game breakfast every Saturday morning...
...palpable tension in the audience. The alacrity of his mood swings--at one point he switches instantly from a curious and confused six-year-old to a wretched adolescent screaming violently at the top of his lungs--has an almost eerie effect. Likewise the solemnity and fervor in his ritual mounting of Equus, riding him until he is caught in a libidinous-religious frenzy...
That order, followed by the ritual on the mosque balcony, made possible the first step in the hostages' long, still treacherous journey home. Iran demanded a quick U.S. reply to the conditions set by the Majlis. Administration experts, however, were not about to speed up their painstaking consideration of the Iranian demands. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie warned that "the process . . . will require time, patience and diplomacy...
...clap of the temple bell calls Phnom-Penh's faithful to alms. But the city through which the saffron-robed monks walk is now littered with rubble. There is far less food. The silver bowls have been replaced by plastic ones, bought on the black market. Yet the ritual is more important than ever. "People have asked to revive this dawn rite so they can share the little they have in order to make merit," explains Tep Vong, the senior Buddhist monk in Kampuchea. "We are rebuilding the entire structure of our social and religious life...
...when Pinter permits his characters to behave like familiar people, feeds them flowing dialogue and critical musings, the actors excel. Jordan is charmingly lost as he flirts with Emma, mourning his painful life as the prince of emptiness ruling over the state of Catatonia. Appropriately bemused, Benedict describes the ritual squash game which precedes the ritual "winner buys" lunch. Agutter's role is most difficult, for she is not given such an opportunity to step away from her job as walking chess piece. Only in the early love scenes with Jerry can she display any character at all, and there...