Word: ritualized
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...without them? For one thing, they keep the theaters filled - something that a handful of new musicals (and an even smaller handful of straight plays) each season could never do on their own. For another, they let critics show off their taste and theatrical erudition: doling out ritual praise to the classics of the canon, comparing and contrasting the new production with the Definitive 1975 Version That I Saw But You Didn't. And they give stars a chance to demonstrate their acting chops, stretch their talents - and, of course, keep working...
...gambled his hopes on a bold move to pass a Wall Street rescue plan. House Republicans cut him loose and defeated the bill, sending the stock market crashing and swinging the momentum to Obama. A steady parade of prominent Republicans jumped ship. McCain's aides and supporters began the ritual finger-pointing that is the political version of hospice care, while Palin and others dear to the gop base subtly started jockeying for advantage...
...were married on Sunday at Temple Emanuel in Newton Center, Mass. The four-day, traditional Jewish wedding ceremony included ritual bathing, recitations of the Torah, and prayer services led by family and friends, rather than religious officials...
...home movie has been lost with the growth of video recording. “With home movies made on film you would actually have to wait to see what happens. You would wait weeks for processing and then you would watch them together with your family, like a ritual. Nowadays, people just e-mail videos to each other and watch them individually on their computers.”Because home movies are becoming increasingly scarce, Home Movie Day also focuses on educating the public on how to properly preserve their old film. Film is an organic substance, which shrinks...
...perhaps no surprise that the Al Smith Dinner, which gives candidates the chance to hobnob with Catholic opinion leaders just weeks before an election, became what Theodore White called "a ritual of American politics." John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were the first contenders for the White House to share the dais at the event in 1960. Over the next two decades it was a standard campaign stop, a light-hearted evening to honor the memory of the first Catholic to win a major party's presidential nomination...