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...Obviously, what we're doing right now is a conversation, but it's of a certain kind. You don't get to see what I look like or what my body language is or what my facial expressions are, so it's missing some important components of that primate ritual. (Watch a video about recession etiquette...
...road as if he’d suggested that we stop off himself. As we emerged from the cab and approached the Plaza, a hodgepodge of teenagers and people who could easily have been that age during the turmoil of the 1970s welcomed us to their Friday night ritual. One of the older members of the group picked up the karaoke microphone. His face illuminated by dangling Christmas lights, he thanked everyone for returning that week. This, of course, is when my dad started searching for “Sabrina...
Vinny aptly summarizes the daily routine of the male housemates as “GTL”—an acronym for gym, tanning, and laundry. The “Jersey Shore” nightlife is its own exacting ritual of meaninglessness: drink, inexplicably get into a fight, and try to hook up with a stranger. Think Vladimir and Estragon at risk for serious liver damage...
...heard Dean Smith’s speech from every dean since 1970,” Gomes said. “It’s sort of a ritual...
...there's our once-a-decade constitutional ritual: the U.S. Census, in which we attempt to become more certain about ourselves. The last Census, in 2000, determined that there were 281.4 million of us, more than three times as many as in 1900. Half of us live in suburbs. The center of population shifted 324 miles west and 101 miles south, to Phelps County, Missouri. America used to be majority male, but by 2000 only seven states, all in the West, had more men than women. In 1900, the average household contained five people; by 2000, it had dropped...