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...main ritual is conducted every month when the moon is full. If the ceremony is indoors, it is conducted "sky-clad"?in the nude. It begins with a dance, men and women rotating in a circle facing out. "Thout-tout-a-tout-tout," they sing, "throughout and about." The men put their weight only on the toes of their left feet, which gives them a hobbling gait. At a certain moment, the priestess breaks free and guides the others inward in a spiral. When she gets to the center, she kisses the man next to her and begins...
...voter potential and pitched their campaigns accordingly. George Griffiths, 42, a Lansing junior high school teacher and George Colburn, 33, an analyst for the Michigan legislature, appeared frequently on campus and plugged away for "participatory democracy at all levels." They also drew heavily on 300 mostly student volunteers to tout their message. Neither they nor any of the other candidates ran with party affiliation or identification...
...used to be that reading the Advocate was an exercise in awe and disappointment. It had a bigger reputation than it could live up to partly because Advocate editors liked to tout the names of former contributors who escaped undergraduate awkwardness and secured niches in various literary pantheons. At times the magazine seemed a testing ground for the efforts of cliquish students who aspired--under the direction of Robert Lowell--toward the techniques of Pound and Eliot. At best much of the material printed was imposingly academic in the Pound-Eliot tradition--and all too often, doctrinaire in approach...
...admen often tout their clients' products with such boasts as "lowest priced in its field," "recommended by more physicians," or "three times longer-wearing." Last week the Federal Trade Commission moved to check the claims. Prodded by Ralph Nader and other consumer advocates, the FTC decided that it will issue periodic orders to companies to submit proof of their ad pitches relating to safety, performance, efficiency, quality and comparative prices. The first orders are expected to go to auto companies, probably within three months, and the FTC later will focus on other big advertisers, industry by industry...
...movie does have one striking attribute: actors with real faces. Jeremy Kemp as a Down-Underhanded tout displays all seven sins between his forehead and his chin. Stanley Baker looks like a fist with sideburns. Michael Crawford is Buster Keaton redivivus...