Word: ritualization
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...Jersey Boys hews to the bio-facts, and to the notion that any story about the Italian-American working class has to be about elaborate ritual behavior and ties with the mob. As in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the Seasons' philandering is strictly regimented; one of them says, "You had your real family and your road family." As in Scorsese's Mean Streets, four guys hang out looking for the big score, and one of them get in trouble with a don. By the end of Act I, Tommy owes a half-million dollars to various nefarious gents. Recalling their...
...trio weren't even Chinese. They were Manchus, hunters and fishers from north of the Great Wall who successfully vanquished the crumbling Ming Dynasty in 1644 and were greeted with surprising resignation by most of their new subjects. How these foreign rulers used Chinese tradition, culture and ritual to consolidate their vast empire is a principal theme of the show and is illustrated with 400 objects, most the Emperors' own treasures, on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City. Some items reveal facets of their personalities; others are designed to create imperial images that would promote their...
...Asia these days, the U.S. needs all the help it can get. Bush will leave Japan for the annual APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea. There, though his hosts will doubtless make the ritual declarations about the solidity of their own alliance with the U.S., it is an open secret that Washington and the government of Roh Moo Hyun have differed on everything from the U.S. armed forces' mission in South Korea to the best way to nudge North Korea into a state of peaceful modernity. Sure, the six-party talks on the future of the peninsula achieved something...
...sacrament, according to a recent study. A report released on Friday by the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital indicates that the mescaline-containing plant leaves users psychologically unscathed and may even contribute to an increase in certain types of mental performance.In 1994, peyote was declared legal for consumption in the rituals of the Native American Church, although it is still classified by the U.S. government as a controlled substance whose non-religious use is illegal. Members of the Church—particularly in the American Southwest and Mexico, where the plant naturally grows—ritualistically eat buttons of peyote...
...first play, “A Slice of Life,” began the festival with a sardonic awareness of tradition, which suited the budding playwrights’ efforts to forge their own, new dramatic conventions. In it, a father who wants to circumcise his son according to family ritual is prevented from doing so. In an ironic twist, the professional he hires botches...