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...five-year-old Jim sees a car wreck -- and rides the snake right to the end. In between come dozens of set pieces in which Morrison makes a spectacular, suicidal fool of himself: insulting his audience, trashing hotel rooms, dangling from 10th-story windows, engaging in a blood- sipping ritual with his witchy mistress (Kathleen Quinlan, who gets it right), locking his wife-to-be (Meg Ryan, who has no character to play) in a closet and setting it on fire. Perhaps Stone wants to show that Morrison was the victim of sensuality -- death's hunkiest groupie -- rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come On, Baby, Light My Fizzle | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...final, massive and bloody phase of the conflict that began more than five weeks earlier had to be solemnized as only a President can do. So George Bush helicoptered from Camp David to the White House Saturday night for an appearance that was a kind of grim ritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battleground: Marching to A Conclusion | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Robert C. Rhew '92, the newly-elected chair of the Undergraduate Council, is partaking in a morning exercise ritual. He is not wearing a shirt. In fact, all he is wearing is a pair of Mickey Mouse boxers decorated with red hearts...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: A New Leader Brings His Own Style and a 'Breath Of Fresh Air' | 2/21/1991 | See Source »

...WHAT USEFUL PURPOSE does AWARE Week serve? None that I know of. It gives guilt-stricken white liberals a chance to attend rap sessions at which they can engage in a sort of Maoist ritual self-criticism and confess to committing sins they can't even specify, much less remember...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Why I'm Skipping AWARE Week | 2/19/1991 | See Source »

...Jeaan, a Muslim in the orthodox Sunni tradition, now worships alone. "I've felt a little intimidated because there are a lot of Palestinians and Jordanians who adamantly oppose Western intervention in Kuwait," he says. He finds strength from his ritual of praying five time each day. "I think anybody who isn't religious now has got to be crazy," he adds...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: War Strikes Close to Home for Kuwaiti Student | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

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