Word: ritualization
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...precise science of weight loss to most lightweights is a very individualized, practiced routine, one fine-tuned over their years with the varsity. Most are rigid in their approach, sure that their method works and often wary of the advice of a teammate. It’s a private ritual, bordering on excessive and obsessive, yet made very safe by familiarity and experience. I felt, throughout my time talking and eating with the lightweights, that they knew exactly what they were doing down to the last fraction of a pound.The tortuous journey from Monday to Friday and from season...
...exhausting, this ritual self-interrogation. And then, after all the familiar articles have been written, the cycle starts up again, turning over like the big V-8 in that wasteful sedan we never sold. Gas prices start sliding down again and people go back to driving as they've always driven while listening to the same music on their stereos and tuning out the same discouraging news about global warming, Middle East politics and bumper-to-bumper traffic on the interstates. Crank the Pearl...
...works to promote press freedom, spotlight gender inequity and child abuse, and defend dissidents against Iran's theocratic regime. Ebadi, 58, whose memoir Iran Awakening is out this week, spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu about the Nobel's impact, Iran's nuclear ambitions and her daily relaxation ritual...
...smugness—brings the murder out socially, his detachment is reminiscent of Christian Bale’s performance in “American Psycho.” It’s a scene that will remind college viewers of one too many dorm parties, with their esoteric meaningless ritual. Most surprising was the director’s enthusiasm for the incest plot narrative. It is not exploitive; their love is the only thing that seems to bring these people happiness and I found myself voting for the success of their love. There is also the excitement murder can bring...
...Arts & Sciences’ ousting of President Lawrence H. Summers, have made 2006 a nightmarish year for Harvard’s public relations. Yet, inevitably, 20,000 over-achieving high school seniors will try to climb into our Ivy Tower next winter, U.S. World & News Report’s ritual crowning of Harvard will stabilize our jolted foundations, and most of our graduating class will exit Johnston Gate with promising jobs. For Harvard is Harvard: the most famous college in the world. When my brother and I met a beautiful Italian waitress in Florence who barely spoke English, she asked...