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...BEGINS. Every four years, America's two major political parties materialize in tandem conventions that form the proscenium for the presidential campaign to come. Some argue that these outbursts of ritual and oratory are anachronisms as doomed as dinosaurs. But as this and the following stories show, New York was a vital festival for the Democrats last week. Myths were made and unmade, plinths erected, men and women tested, principles examined and policies established?all essential ingredients to getting the show on the road...
...replies Gloria Allred, the feminist lawyer who prepared Bick and Becker's suit. "Restaurants are the last bastions of rituals having to do with rigid roles for men and women," says she. The priceless menu implies "that women will always be taken care of if they're with a man, and that we shouldn't be bothering our pretty little heads about the price of dinner." Another ritual that Allred abhors is having the man taste the wine, which "suggests that women can't appreciate fine wine." As the general manager of another stylish Los Angeles...
...National Convention. They did so at great personal expense and not inconsiderable inconvenience, and they did so even though they knew that the convention does not really do what it was designed to do: select a presidential candidate. The delegates have become bit players in what amounts to a ritual drama...
...ritual of rituals is the softball game, a rigid study in presidential informality. "O.K., where are the victims?" asked Carter as he strode onto the field in 100° heat. The White House team was loaded with Secret Service agents. "I thought the game was fixed when you bring ballplayers in from all over the country just to play one game," jeered a newly trim and fit Brother Billy, captain of the opposing team, a collection of locals and reporters...
Saturninus appropriates Tamora (Pat Galloway), Queen of the Goths, for his empress. A Lady Macbeth-to-be, Tamora seethes with ambition and an acrid hatred of Titus, who had her eldest son killed in a ritual sacrifice. When she takes Aaron (Errol Slue), a Moor, for her lover, the carnage begins. Despite his color, Aaron is Iago's twin in his motiveless malignity. He plots to have Titus' daughter Lavinia (Goldie Semple) raped, and her hands cut off and her tongue ripped out. Then the heads of two of Titus' murdered sons are unshrouded before the father...