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...exalted spirituality expected among the primitives. The Dowayos are placid people, devoted to ribald joking, sexual freedom, wife beating and an unusual beer that Barley says "enables one to pass directly from sobriety to hangover without an intervening stage of drunkenness." Every so often, the natives erupt in frenzied skull-cult ceremonies, but basically nothing much else ever happens in the culture: "Dowayos seldom if ever seemed to do anything, have any beliefs or engage in symbolic activity. They just existed...
...downtown Boston, black-robed protesters wearing skull masks act as pall- bearers in a mock funeral for Nicaragua's war casualties. A banner reads 7,000 NICARAGUANS MURDERED BY CIA CONTRAS. At a University of Florida rally in Gainesville, students on the other side of the issue call the contras "freedom fighters" and cheer as Marcos Zeledon, a leader of those rebels, decries Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Los Angeles a large crowd gathers to hear liberal Actor Ed Asner debate with Lewis Lehrman, a conservative activist. The subject: "Should the U.S. resume aid to the contras...
...alone: 15 normal on--camera hackings, four off--camera carvings of which we only see the results, three dream slicings which we view in all their glory, and three half dicings where we are never sure if the the weapon actually reaches the victims. Over 60 disembowellments and skull-crushings in the first five series. God, Roger, this is the sort of stuff that goes on out there...
...they offer each other up to teach the quasiprimitive Borneans some new dance steps, and at another they end up, reports the author, so hung over that "someone seemed to have inserted a pestle into my cerebellum during the night, and was now using the inside top of my skull as a mortar." A native politely informs him, "You got drunks like a man who still lives in his mother's room. You got drunks like a schoolboy. You made noises like a babi when he looks in the ground for foods." Every misstep of the way, O'Hanlon employs...
...avers Wyeth, 67. "They're more enduring than the flesh that hangs on them." And how did Mrs. Wyeth regard her husband's nod to physical if not artistic mortality? "I just loved it," she says, adding that she recognized the subject immediately because "I just knew what his skull would look like." True love indeed is more than skin-deep...