Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During dinner, McGuane sips nonalcoholic beer and talks about an upcoming cutting-horse competition in Billings. Cutting, a highly stylized ritual in which a horse and rider "work" a cow in much the same way a defensive guard tries to block a basketball, is a dear topic for the McGuanes. They also happen to be formidably good at it. Laurie is Montana's defending cutting- horse champion, Tom was No. 1 the year before, and the two are the leading contenders for the 1989 trophy. "We take turns," Laurie laughs...
...aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share in an emotional payoff...
Secret Santas may have had merrier holidays at Kirkland House. In a letter written by Kirkland Master Donald H. Pfister this week, the house's gift-giving festivities were characterized as a "mating ritual,... the culmination of a period devoted to titillating sexual activity under the guise of Holiday exchanges...
Last year about two-thirds of the houseparticipated in the secret santa ritual, studentssaid...
Calling Kirkland's winter dance "the culmination of a period devoted to titillating sexual activity under the guise of Holiday exchanges," Pfister wrote that he found the house's secret santa "mating ritual" appalling...