Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here it is, almost a quarter-century later, and Garth Brooks, 30, is still the star of Funny Night, a family ritual from his childhood in Yukon (pop. 21,400), the Oklahoma City suburb where young Troyal Garth Brooks would knock himself out trying to outshine his sister and four brothers. Only difference now is that the venue's gotten bigger, and the stakes higher. Dramatically higher. Today this guy with the excess longitude under the chin is the new face of pop music...
Lourdes loves the cold. She relishes "the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings. Its layers protect her." Raped by revolutionaries who afterward carved "crimson hieroglyphics" into her soft belly, she wants "no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all." But her Americanized daughter Pilar, born in Cuba when the revolution was 11 days old, misses her abuela: "Every day Cuba fades a little more inside me, my grandmother fades a little more inside me. And there's only my imagination where our history...
Korder first showed talent with 1987's Fun, a teenage boy's nihilist spree, and burst into prominence in 1988 with Boys' Life, a Mametian glimpse of postadolescent rituals of drinking, puking, courting and infidelity. In Search and Destroy, now on Broadway, he looks at men his own age who have achieved material success but feel an inner hollowness. They seek cures ranging from ritual maleness a la Iron John to shedding their ties and common sense in reckless crusades for adventure. The central character, played by film actor Griffin Dunne, reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income...
Eventually, visiting Williamsburg became an annual pilgrimage, a springtime ritual that created and then fed an obsession with all things colonial and Virginian...
...poetic impulse, not a prosaic one. He confines the action to the same few hundred acres of his ancestral Cumberlands, telling a nation's story in terms of feelings for that patch of land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge. Warner Shook's staging vividly mixes ritual and realism. While Schenkkan is far better at incident than character, Charles Hallahan and Tuck Milligan enact just the sort of rogues whom descendants go on talking about. The plays strive for mythic power -- and attain it. W.A.H...