Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the suicide of a public official under suspicion has become a familiar ritual in Washington of late. Among those who have chosen to end their life rather than face possible public humiliation are former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, who shot himself before the Whitewater investigation; John Hemperley, the chief budget officer of the Library of Congress, who came under suspicion for possible financial improprieties; and Ernie Blanchard, the Coast Guard's top press spokesman, who faced a possible court-martial because of sexually offensive jokes he told in a speech. Each victim, of course...
...first intemperate disgust at the media for pursuing the admiral even to his death, his ritual shame, his seppuku, erupted behind the question: Who cares? Who gives a damn if he wore a couple of battle decorations he should not have...
...there is definitely something there, and one wonders how the play might have turned out if the material were somehow a little bit more manageable and polished. At times one might even think that the genre is wrong: as a radio play the musicality of the monologues, the ritual speeches, and the sound effects would come across very well as would the more expressive silences. But so long as one overlooks the difficulties that no doubt come with the new territory, "The Hyacinth Macaw" certainly offers a philosophical challenge, if not always a cohesive play...
...What do you think will come to pass? In any case, plot turns are one thing, chemistry another. Seasoned superstars--including Al Pacino and Robert Redford--have failed to ignite the screen when paired with the ultracool Pfeiffer. Clooney will at least have this advantage: much of the mating ritual in the movie is conducted via cell phone...
This show will take things much further, for specialists, no doubt, but especially for the ordinary viewer. There could be no more vivid introduction to the upper reaches of Chinese art, and this takes hold right at the beginning. No matter how many ritual vessels from the late Shang dynasty (13th to 11th centuries B.C.) you may have seen, the memory of them will pale beside the massive ting, or tripod pot, in the first room, with its swollen bronze belly and deeply incised decoration. And when, in a nearby case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk...