Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social disorder": he had been proclaiming the imminent coming of the second Messiah in Korea. When the Chinese pushed the U.N. troops out of North Korea in 1950, Moon fled to the south and later started a church in Seoul. In those days, say early members of the sect, ritual sex characterized the Moon communes. Since Moon was a pure man, sex with him ("blood cleansing") was supposed to purify both body and soul, and marriages of other cultists were in fact invalid until the wives slept with Moon. As the cult became bigger, the blood-cleansing rites were abandoned...
...that? Well, there is a sense of going through a programmed ritual. Each person plays a role-the press, the candidate. It's repetitive. It is absurd to be saying the same thing over and over. There seems to be a premise that a good candidate can produce the Holy Grail. All you can really do is say your piece, which isn't all that different from anybody else's. But I can't come up with a better substitute [to campaigning]. It's a testing process that brings out what people are like...
During my half hour interview with him, Rosenthal stayed accessible to his staff, never closing the office door. In his office there is a long wooden table surrounded by chairs, where in a daily ritual at 4 p.m., the Times's editors present the news to their boss...
...hard to see why she needs anything to set her off, given her behavior in the rest of the film; all the acupuncture does is serve as an excuse for what, predictably, happens next. The scene in Bali, while slightly less predictable, is little more believable. An exotic ritual with fifty chanting native men in loin clothes around a sacred lamp, it is reminiscent only of a Kellogg's Puffa Puffa Rice commercial...
What's in a flag? To George Balanchine, who is as symbol-minded as the next choreographer, a flag stands for the ritualistic, pride-bearing side of a nation. How and why the repetitious pace of ritual should be transformed into dance are questions that Balanchine alone seems able to answer. In Stars and Stripes (1958), he made a brilliant humoresque out of close-order and other U.S. military drills. In his latest creation, the hour-long Union Jack, he has come up with a visually stunning, three-part divertissement that masses the clans, changes the guard and salutes...