Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tatami Mates. In a study of parentally arranged marriages near Shulin, Taiwan, Stanford Anthropologist Arthur P. Wolf found two distinct patterns of premarital behavior. In the so-called major form of marriage, which the villagers considered proper, the future partners had little or no contact as children, and the bride did not enter her husband's home until the marriage actually took place. In the minor system, which was considered less proper, the girl was taken to the prospective husband's household as an infant or young child, and they were reared as brother and sister until...
HUMILIATION, guilt, psychic imprisonment, schizophrenia, cosmic alienation, cruelty, suicide, cancer of the soul: these are not unlikely concerns for a new film by Ingmar Bergman. Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, and Hour of the Wolf have all developed these themes, groped for them, probed them, pried them loose from their existential moorings, and held them up for all to see against the ambiguous Scandinavian sky in their full mystery and complexity. The Passion of Anna, however, attempts no exploration into these. It presents them, parades them, but asks no questions, suggests no solutions...
...Dolle Minas have also embarked on what amounts to mass sensitivity training for Amsterdam males. In broad daylight, they wolf-whistle at men, visually undress them with dare-me eyes, and call out suggestive remarks. Some have even pinched the guys in a sort of derrière-guard action...
...DELIA arrived in Alaska in 1948, worked for a while in Ketchikan, then drifted over to the Skwentna region, where he built a cabin and started trapping. Skwentna is good mixed-fur country-mink, marten, lynx, wolf, otter, beaver, muskrat. Fifteen years ago, trappers got good money for these pelts. Minks, for example, brought about $36 each; today Joe Delia is lucky to average $10. Lynxes, on the other hand, have improved. You can get $60 apiece-when you find one: the reproduction cycle has made this animal scarce...
...Died. L. Wolf Gilbert, 83, composer of Ramona, The Peanut Vendor, Green Eyes, Lily of the Valley, Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee and dozens more; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...