Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throw up after every practice (I didn't) and running the half mile for the next three years and feeling like I was going to vomit after every race (I did most of the time). I was willing to go through the agony of an 880 and the ritual throwing-up because I ran good times and won, while I wasn't really so thrilled about turning green after swimming because I was awful and never came in better than an occasional third...
...season ended with the notorious "O" club initiation, a ritual for all first-year varsity lettermen. The initiates were ordered to crawl backward for fifty yards with "grapes up our asses," forced to drink menstrual fluid, and constantly shocked with battery-powered cattle prods. Coaches observed these activities to ensure that the proceedings "didn't get too sadistic...
After a brief ceremony, the coffin was carried to a hearse for the clanging procession to the cemetery. At the tomb, food was placed on the coffin, in accordance with Buddhist ritual, to sustain the soul on its otherworld journey. During the graveside ceremony, the audible and visible anguish of the family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor...
...heroine relates to the whole question mostly as a strategic matter of home economics. Barbra Streisand appears as Margaret Reynolds, an intermittently harassed mother of two and wife of an up-and-coming professor of political science at Columbia. For once Streisand dispenses with her ritual mugging and piercing line readings; her performance is generally subdued and rather good. The fact that she is never fully believable in the part is due largely to the mistake of casting a superstar as a woman who ought to be not quite anonymous but no more than average...
...product ties together several frames of a woman and child getting up in the morning with bars of morning sunlight but in general one has to be skeptical of Wise's posted statement that he united the sequences through "formal relations and through the structure of narrative, myth, and ritual...