Word: communalized
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...incredibly involved throughout the course of the film, screaming in disgust when a drunk Caroline, Norah’s best friend, reached into a defecated toilet—a maneuver she learned at the Delphic’s second punch event. At another point, the audience let out a communal “Awww” after a character declared that the Beatles had solved it all when they said: “people don’t want a 24 hour humpfest, they don’t want to be married to you for 100 years, they just want...
...club on the Lower East side, offered a visceral experience, and people poured into the seat-less “theater” to dance, cheer, sing, and smoke with the cast. “I really think her work is about reinforcing that idea of the communal effect, of getting people together in the same place, seeing something together, sensing bodies in the same room, hearing people breathe,” Pecci says. “It’s a human experience. Someone smells. It’s not like you’re home by yourself watching...
...frenzy has subsided; tribespeople break off for communal morning meals. Some will rejoice in their success, and they will measure their clan’s power in Attendees, the culture’s only recognizable currency. Many others will have found their courtship a failure, their meetings thinly populated and their cultural capital vaporized. Neither outcome is cause enough to forego next week’s performance. These Harvardians, laboring under a catastrophe of ambition, will be out here again...
...exams as well were engaging and almost communal. Consider the one he gave for Constitutional Law III in the Fall 1997 semester. Students were told to act as attorneys in the make-believe state of Futura, advising the parents of a 23-year-old woman named Dolly, who had established a living will before sustaining near fatal injuries in a car accident. The will empowered her parents to make "any and all decisions regarding medical treatment," including terminating "life-sustaining treatment." The parents wanted to clone Dolly by taking a healthy cell from her body and inserting it into...
Given real estate's penchant for shorthand (think condo, co-op, comps and COFI), we should add a term for friends who buy houses together. Let's call them communal homeowners...