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...assassinated. The audience applauds when the Cardinal dies: Cort's portrayal allows for no sympathy. Cort relishes his role as a relentless villain, stalking across the stage, raising a disdainful eyebrow at the masquerade his sister arranges to entertain him, and reciting the sonorous phrases of the Latin excommunication ritual with majestic self-righteousness. We believe it when someone says "the Devil speaks...
...INSIDE Alvin Toffler rebels at the convention of mealtime. During the technological age, he notes on page 135 of his very thick book The Third Wave, "eating became technologized with the diffusion of forks and other specialized table implements." And every fall and spring, Toffler frets mightily at the ritual of standard time. "Periodically, in unison, as though motivated by a single will, millions of people set their clocks back or forward an hour, and whatever our inner, subjective sense of things may tell us when time is dragging, or conversely when it seems to be whizzing by, an hour...
...grove stands amid a series of fieldstone revetments. The mujahidin use the rocky enclosure to observe Afghan government convoys on the valley floor below; it is also a resting place for the bodies of five Soviet paratroopers killed there last January. Few of the insurgents can resist taking a ritual poke at the skulls. "This is what we do to Russians," Rebel Tribesman Shaler Seyed beams ferociously, hoisting a cranium into the air with a stick. "We will cut them all into little pieces...
...clouds swathing the jagged snowcapped mountains ringing Kabul, flocks of Soviet helicopters-Mi-24 "Flying Tank" gunships and Mi-8 troop and supply carriers-lift off from the airport and roar across the city on flight paths calculated to inspire fear and respect. Thus begins the daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces-sky caravans in what was once a land of camel caravans -fly farther...
...confused longings and demagogy of Michael de Freitas, a Trinidadian cult leader who was hanged for murder in 1975, are reflected in Guerrillas (1975). There are touches of pathos in the studiously detached account of De Freitas' career as a contemporary Emperor Jones. The problems of fitting the ritual masks of modernism over Africa's colonial scars are treated with impatient sympathy. But in Argentina, Naipaul seems to walk on a decaying planet where a succession of carnivores feed on a gullible mass and a demoralized middle class. It is a place where the grotesque is made...