Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more like glossolalia on the lips of a hurried priest. But many traditionalists who understood the Latin Mass regarded its translation as equivalent to redesigning Chartres or Notre Dame along the lines of a functional Manhattan office building. The Latin version, with a patina of centuries, had a majestic ritual quality that the vernacular often turns into a godforsaken flatness...
Since a liberalized divorce law went into effect in the Dominican Republic 2½ months ago, 220 Americans have participated in the brisk ritual-and poured more than $36,000 into government coffers in the process. The country's chief Splitsville rival, neighboring Haiti, has been in the foreign divorce business since December, and now records about 100 quickie decrees a month. Both countries are looking for rapid growth of the infant industry...
...that "the midtown area was inundated with prostitution." The girls received some unexpected support: Women's Liberationists quickly picketed the courthouse, protesting female exploitation. But the resultant publicity could not have been better for Mayor John Lindsay, who was at the same time launching the city's ritual annual crackdown on the sidewalk sirens...
...materials to acquire its "cargo," but that is all so much hocus-pocus to the tribesmen. As Sydney University Anthropologist Peter Lawrence notes, "They can't conceive of a factory where goods are manufactured. They believe that everything has a deity who has to be contacted through ritual," and who only then will deliver the cargo...
...complete with stash, burns and a 17-year-old hippie on his arm. Jonathan is even more pathetic. In the final semi-surrealistic scene, he lies on his back awaiting the ministrations of a prostitute (Rita Moreno). As she sinks slowly, agonizingly slowly, to her knees she recites a ritual of masculine domination: "You have ... an inner power so great that every act, no matter what, is more proof of that power." If the text varies by so much as a word, Jonathan cannot achieve orgasm. The great swordsman, the contemptuous user of women, has become impotent...