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...same day Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court went up in marijuana smoke, and the politicians were forced to hack through thickets of have-you-ever interrogation. Two (Al Gore and Bruce Babbitt) volunteered that they had. When it was Richard Gephardt's turn at the pressroom ritual, he restated his lifelong purity concerning controlled substances. Then a question shouted from the back row: Why didn't you smoke marijuana? If he could not be nailed as a pothead, then he would be tagged a nerd...
Before each Harvard men's soccer game, senior back Andy Dale performs the same ritual...
...game ritual is more than just superstition. While AC/DC plays, Dale's face is a study of intensity. It's the same expression he wears on the field...
That's when it's time for ritual number two. A James Taylor tape finds its way into Dale's walkman...
...director's visit is his first to the United States. He is scheduled to lecture onseveral of his films, attend classes and meet withfaculty members, students, and Boston-areafilmmakers, He is accompanied on his tour byTadayoshi Himeda, a documentary filmmaker whosework on ritual and custom, particularly among thedwindling Ainu people of Hokkaido, has influencedImamura's work. Many of Himeda's films will alsobe screened by the archives...