Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...errors has all the clarity and precision of a Jackson Pollack canvas. In a great many courses each term, either the classrooms or the teaching staffs prove too small to accommodate the students who show up for the first lectures. The result is by now a biennial ritual: the helter-skelter of relocations and the anxiety of lotteries...
Both shows are challenging more than just the British suspicion that television in the morning is faintly decadent. Less than half the population rises before 7, and British television sets are not generally in the kitchen. Moreover, the morning ritual of breakfast and BBC Radio 4 remains sacred for many. So far, the reviews have been mixed and ratings inconclusive. One day last week more than 5 million people watched morning television, many of them sampling the inaugural broadcast of the new show. A gastronome once claimed that to eat well in England one should have breakfast three times...
This semi-annual shopping ritual always provokes a string of questions from student shoppers. How much of the Coop's merchandise is available elsewhere in the numerous smaller shops in the Square? How do Coop prices compare with those of other retailers...
...virtuoso pianist and a celebrated diva perform aboard a ship pointedly christened Narcissus. The lure is also gastronomical: "The port of call determined the musical work, and the musical work determined the menu. These delicate musical relationships, hesitant at first, had bit by bit been transformed into invariable ritual, even if it occasionally happened that the sudden decay of a tournedos necessitated the replacement of Rossini by Mahler, and the tournedos by a Bavarian pot roast...
...home games are where the over nightesrs shine, scenes of in evolving ritual that dates back into the years of Coach John Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood. Through chants of "Who's he?" "Big deal" "So what" "Who cares?" and "Go home" after the introduction of the visitors' line-up, shouts of "Play ball" at the end of the national anthem, and the flawless execution of a repertoire of game-time cheers and jeers, the faithful add to their enjoyment of the best games while over the likes of San Joe State...