Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After every episode of Studs, the contestants all gather at center stage and hug each other. We watch the ritual for a moment--then the rap beat begins to blast, the credits begin to roll and DeCarlo walks in front of the camera, spouting some nonsense about the evening's spectacle. The huggers remain in the background, barely visible. When the cameras cease to roll, Laurie will probably kick Morris where it counts...
...recollections of our interaction, when I was three, involve me sitting happily between her legs in a bathtub, both of us naked. I also remember her standing in front of me rubbing her breasts. At other times, she would fret over whether my bowels were all right. A regular ritual was a cleansing enema of sudsy water made with laundry detergent. I still recall the feel of the tile bathroom floor as I lay there on my left side while she administered the preparation. "Breathe deeply," she said while we waited for her brew to work...
...transition from crowded city streets to single-family homes has produced millions of atomized, self-directed people, disconnected from the greater community, until no community remains at all. The block party becomes an empty ritual, an enactment of what it would be like to care about neighbors. Fellow-feeling and concern becomes neighborhood snooping, since the entire landscape conspires against intimacy...
Attitudes are beginning to change, however. Scientists are learning to look past the myth, superstition and ritual that often conceal the hard-won insights of indigenous peoples. Sometimes the lessons have come in handy: during the gulf war, European doctors treated some wounds with a sugar paste that traces back to Egyptian battlefield medicine of 4,000 years...
...ANATOMICALLY CORRECT. Last year the band Jane's Addiction initially released Ritual de lo Habitual with nude dolls cavorting on the cover but changed to a blank white album with a quote from the First Amendment...