Word: ritualized
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...Fear not, fashion followers. Maticevski more than satiates our appetite for edgy, contemporary, artsy fashion.9:40 p.m.As our fashion weekend comes to a close, we head in from the center tent for another up-and-coming women’s wear designer label, Venexiana.Our first evening show requires more ritual than the previous four. A quick change of outfit, and we are back. The zany but focused fashion week crowd has adopted a more carefree Saturday night attitude, and Venexiana plays to the crowd perfectly.Instead of Euro beats, the show begins with hip-hop throwdowns mixed with Beyonce and Justin...
...tell people who don't know carnival that it is the same ritual every year, just two weeks of happy, drunk people cavorting around the streets half naked. And like every year, my innate Scottish reserve stops me from jumping into the fray with the same abandon as everyone else. Yet as I slip my cocktail back in my belt and watch grown adults spray each other with foam, I know that if I really want to enjoy myself, I must join the ranks of those happy drunk people cavorting around half naked. "Carnival is interaction," agrees my friend Tatiana...
...small sampling of Faust’s bibliography will unavoidably elicit snickers from those outside the confines of the Academy: “The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina,” “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying,” and the above-mentioned “Altars of Sacrifice...
...stage, adorned with relatively few decorations and objects, was ultimately quite successful in evoking richly ornate Tibetan monasteries. A white table upstage bore the image of the Dalai Lama and a three-dimensional mandala and torma, ritual offerings usually made of yak butter or ground barley. One graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism, speculated that the table served as a throne, with the Dalai Lama’s image acting as a manifestation of His presence...
...religious foreign observer cannot fail to be moved by the intensity of faith that courses through the tiny room, a collective surge of emotion connecting today's Shi'ites with the events that marked their division from Sunnis and centuries of persecution, warfare and sectarianism. It is a powerful ritual of Shi'ite unity - one that the Sunni Taliban leadership attempted to curtail during their reign in Kabul...