Word: ritualizes
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...night, indigenous women in the audience cackled, men heckled and a singing elder left the stage coughing in mid-performance. For white audiences, it was a matter of leaving behind the assumptions of Western theater. Enacted on a red-dirt stage at dusk, it brought a sense of simple ritual to Adelaide. "That's it for tonight," said Body Dreaming's host Banduk Marika as she concluded proceedings. "That was sunset...
Sykes heralds Caroline Bessette Kennedy as the prototypical Bergdorf blonde. The late Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., had her white-blonde touch ups at Bergdorf’s Parvene salon every thirteen days at $450 per highlight. To Sykes this ritual was extraordinary, but neither compulsive nor neurotic. “It’s part of being, like, the ultimate New York girl,” Sykes wrote in her proposal for the novel...
...Tongba is made in a cylindrical wooden pot with polished brass banding (the tongba, from which the drink gets its name). This is filled with fermented millet seeds. Your host then adds hot water in a ritual reminiscent of a Japanese tea ceremony. Drinkers suck the alcoholic mixture through a bamboo straw with tiny filters to keep the seeds out, and it's a never-ending affair. You sit around the fire with a thermos flask topping up the pot for hours, and snack on spiced cucumber and mutton pieces known as sekura or sukuli. The locals will assure...
...were designed to frame views of the gardens as much as to be beautiful in their own right. Here, Yoshimasa and a group of like-minded aesthetes would meet to compose poetry and perform that most quintessentially Japanese of arts, the tea ceremony. (Today, any object of the tea ritual from that time, even the humblest bamboo ladle, fetches a fabulous sum at auction if an association with Yoshimasa can be established.) An accomplished poet and great patron of Noh theater, Yoshimasa explored every artistic field known in his day and even created a few: he played a crucial role...
...Where both antecedent sports offer nearly continuous action, American football amounts to brief periods of furious motion squeezed in between meetings (or huddles as they are called by initiates). This innovation is both comforting and familiar for legions of middle managers across this great land for whom meetings have ritual significance (in the sense that they represent something you have to do that produces no discernible results). During these meetings the CEO - the coach - delivers his instructions to his chief operating officer - the quarterback - who is expected to deliver quarterly results. A football quarter is calculated in minutes rather than...