Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose child does not even turn out to be his-a murderous rage is born. Jimmie realizes that the white side of his nature is as doomed to suffocation as the black. Cheated by his employers, taunted and humiliated beyond endurance, he undertakes mayhem as a sort of mad ritual, an attempt to be for once the white man's priest and judge instead of his willing nigger...
Lovely, rich Amanda Burden, 28, of New York's Beautiful People, filed last June for divorce from City Councilman Carter Burden, descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. But with a jet-setter's impatience, Amanda flew off to Sun Valley, Idaho, where the ritual takes a mere six weeks. The change prompted gossip-column wonderings about a romance with Senator Edward
...tried to avoid press notice by entering and leaving the Senate chamber separately, taking different routes through various doors eventually leading to the Secretary's office, Room S-224. Once their timing was bad and, emerging from different doors, they collided and laughed sheepishly. "Woops!" said Humphrey. The ritual was observed by TIME'S Neil MacNeil, who asked Humphrey if he had been offered second place. "We are talking about some matters of mutual interest," beamed Humphrey. Actually, he had been asked and was firmly declining...
...protagonist, a young teacher named Phil Hatcher, is a compulsive player of horses, poker, craps - any ritual of chance on which he can stake his life or his rent money. His marriage goes, his career more or less disintegrates, but the "action" remains. Gambling - worked at, lovingly labored over, the Morning Telegraph studied with a Talmudic precision - becomes the last pure arena of sheer individualistic intellect: the mind in combat with the odds. Guetti's scenes at Aqueduct and Monmouth Park, at craps tables and poker parties, have a tense authenticity. Thousands of dollars roll in and out with...
...three of the four men, the trip into the wilderness is something of a lark. For Lewis (Burt Reynolds) it is a ritual and a trial. He tells his best friend Ed, played by Jon Voight: "Machines are gonna fail. The system's gonna fail. And then-survival...