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From now until mid-September, Time, Newsweek , the New York Times , and half the other magazines and newspapers in the country will participate in that odd journalistic ritual whereby critics abandon the skepticism we demand of them the rest of the year and emit hopeful bubbles of enthusiasm--a gush that turns to bile when the plays or movies or art shows in question prove as disappointing as one sort of suspected they would be.
Canaries wrestling (lucha canaria): Rather like sumo wrestling, lucha canaria is a mixture of civilized ritual and caveman huffing and puffing.
Now John McCain faces the same ritual.
But the compressed time of air travel gives its language a focused, liturgical quality that oceanic travel has never had (at least for passengers), from the initial welcome aboard to the cautionary homily to the ritual meal--on more and more flights, a merely symbolic activity--to the final "Good-bye.
Apparently the legislature was concerned that they might be used for gambling or, as I recall, Jewish ritual.