Word: communally
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...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...
...stalagmite does wax and wane with the seasons but some blame premature melting on global warming, others on heightened human activity near the shrine). However, for more than two months now, this small, 150 ft high and 90 ft long cave has been the center of a raging communal and political storm in the state of Jammu and Kashmir - one that has divided the Hindu and Muslim populations of the state. Now, the Hindu rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to make it a major issue leading up to the general elections next year, with potentially explosive results...