Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice to keep the businesses in the Square healthy, I'm more concerned about the health of my bank account and of my body. A money-saving compromise is the heist of apples and other pieces of fruit from the dining halls, an act that has become a nightly ritual for many...
Ladies and gentlemen, let me ask those of you up front to move back so that everyone can see and hear, for I am about to perform a time-honored healing ritual of political journalists. With the able assistance of a corps of researchers, I shall produce a cornucopia of quotations bemoaning the state of our candidates and the campaign, only to reveal that--tah-dahhh!--these comments were about past political campaigns. Ready...
...staged a bloodless coup that ended the 23-year reign of his father Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, 64, who had developed an unseemly fondness for liquor and opulent palaces. Since then, Qataris have witnessed one of the bitterest Arabian family spats in memory, involving cash and arms, ritual and reform. Only last week did a cease-fire seem to take hold. Khalifa appeared to renounce his claims, and Hamad agreed to let his father return from exile and become Qatar's elder statesman...
Halgreen enjoys an unusual pre-competition ritual: "[I] drink a couple of beers so I relax. Then I just skate...
...Bands like Green Day, Hootie and the Blowfish and Pearl Jam are built up, and then, when they become successful, trashed by the very same tastemakers and trendmeisters who declared these acts worthwhile to begin with. Only a few bands like U2 and R.E.M. manage to escape the ritual slaughter and mature with grace...