Word: re-enactment
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...county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes used to re-enact the Crucifixion by nailing a member of their sect to the cross. For the Spaniards who once were Rio Arriba's lords, life has become as harsh as the land, and they have sunk to an existence as pitiable as that of the Indians they dispossessed...
...their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton's quarterbacking blunders, he becomes an unwelcome intruder, making a simple game out of a serious ritual filled with thunder and grace...
...fear of trespassing or lawbreaking. A perfect example of this was in the elaborate 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings plotted by the Lampoon last year. Rich and jubilant after a tremendously successful Play boy parody, the Poonies hired elephants and specially designed bows and arrows to re-enact the great battle right here at Cambridge-on-the-Charles. All the arrangements were made amidst great excitement and relative secrecy. What stopped the warriors from their brave encounter? They were refused permission from University Hall. The apocryphal answer they were given, the word from on high, stopping them...
...grip of a semipermanent revolution, constantly undergoing social and economic changes that in Europe might send people to the barricades. Occasionally, Americans may still try to re-enact the two-fisted frontiersman, but the real source of much American violence is the swift pace of social change, which can be deeply disturbing to the less stable personalities in a society. Europe has usually experienced its revolutions spasmodically, at fairly long intervals, while in between it tends to defer to official authority far more than do Americans...
...painful birth, guilty for his "hatred" of his parents, and guilty for his love of his brother Richard, a wild, leching lad who committed suicide at 22. Chambers' whole life, to hear Zeligs tell it, became a search for a mystical brother whom he could force to re-enact a ritual death pact. The consummation of that search was the symbolic destruction of his "mystical brother," Alger Hiss...