Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistress. Their bizarre, frequently incomprehensible exchange, in which erotic and violent impulses are mingled, is broken off suddenly by the sound of an alarm clock--the real Madame is about to come home, and we learn that Claire has been wearing her clothes as part of a play-acting ritual...
...next three weekends, College Democrats and the Clinton-Gore '96 campaign will be running buses to New Hampshire for college students in the Boston area, free of charge. The New Hampshire primary is a ritual in American life which happens only once every four years...
What's new is the theater of it. Television does not create weather, any more than it creates contemporary politics. However, the ritual ceremonies of televised weather have endowed a subject often previously banal with an amazing life as mass entertainment, nationwide interactive preoccupation and a kind of immense performance...
When the ghastly scene was discovered, the day before Christmas Eve, much of appalled Western Europe was compelled to ask--again--Why? The winter solstice ritual enacted about an hour's drive from the site of the glittering 1992 Winter Olympics reprised similar cult sacrifices that took place 14 months earlier. And among the victims were some of the most privileged, responsible members of society. Besides the police officers, the woman psychotherapist and an architect, the dead included Patrick Vuarnet, the 27-year-old son of 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, best known today for his line...
This solution is appropriate for highly public spaces such as a town green or a public school. These are the property of a people whose Constitution guarantees against any establishment of religion. The president's yearly ritual of lighting the national Christmas tree is surely problematic. Decorating a non-religious public school for specific holidays excludes an entire group of students. In these cases, it seems appropriate that individuals should find other outlets for their religious expression...