Word: ritualizes
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...draw rather than carve the body. Ducharme also says that he emphasized the colors used to paint the dolls’ masks because they are symbolic in Hopi art: the Hopi use six colors to denote direction or the region from which a particular animal involved in a ritual comes.While Ducharme also exhibited real katsina dolls with several books about the carvings and Hopi culture in general, the exhibit was evidently centered on his photographs. “I’m attracted to the photographs more so than to a doll...Personally, these get my attention more than...
...apparently fearful of receiving a less welcoming reception than his arch-rival Mitt Romney. But on Thursday, two days after his disappointing showing on Super Tuesday, Romney returned to CPAC to bow out of the presidential race, clearing the way for McCain to begin a sort of dating ritual with the movement he has never followed step for step. He faces an uphill battle, but it is one he can overcome...
...candidate seemingly created in a lab. On Tuesday, a resurrected McCain slipped beyond the moneyed Michigan native's manicured grasp to win by five points in the Florida Republican primary and cement his status as the G.O.P. front-runner. Romney smiled through a thinly revised version of his ritual stump speech, as though the race hadn't fundamentally changed. But one could imagine what he might be thinking in the darker recesses of his mind...
...aloft to the table by a chef. Then, a wild-eyed Scotsman recites Robert Burns' poem Address To a Haggis, and upon reaching the line, "An' cut ye up wi' ready sleight," he plunges a dagger into the taut sheep's stomach amid cheers from the diners. In a ritual repeated by Scots across the globe on Burns Night, January 25, the birthday in 1759 of their most cherished poet, the attack on the main course continues...
...they will talk about. I am often tormented by visions of conversations in the post-analog world that run something like this: “How was your day?” “Fine.” “Did I tell you about the Icon-Ritual Text of Medieval Russia?” “Yes … I’m going to buy a new TV.”What Harvard’s Core fails to take into account is the fact that a conversation requires two people. We may share...