Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March), is a very odd show. Largely composed of loans from the Greek government, it combines a number of profound, exquisite and completely irreplaceable works of art, which wiser owners would not have exposed to the risks of travel, with an utter shallowness of argument about their social and ritual meanings. Insofar as an exhibition can assemble great sculpture and have practically no scholarly value, this one does...
Which makes the listener wonder why they have included the relatively flimsy "Girl Afraid" in the second album. The song's stock theme of boy-girl misunderstandings detracts from the mood of raw bleakness induced by songs like "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now." Furthermore, the song shifts the album's focus sharply away from the peculiarities of Morissey's self absorbed first person to random generality in a disconcerting fashion...
...share of shrimp; and I listen to Wagner. And my last name is as goyishe as it gets. But I'm Jewish. I live in Manhattan; I can quote Woody on command; and I observe (Jews never "celebrate") in varying degrees of intensity the high points of the Jewish ritual calendar...
...exhibit seeks to generate positive feelings about sexuality and condoms by treating them almost as ritual objects. And Norberg says she hopes to change the cultural association of condoms by presenting them in a unusual and provocative way, through...
Norberg's first pieces were composed of beads and feather, a reflection of her association of condoms with ritual and religious tradition...