Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient traditions are preserved in its art. In fact the shooting fraternity of Cracow still exists. Each year they parade with a replica of their royal bird to their ritual gunnery...
This picture of ritual life and death on an American fashion magazine brightens the pages of Ouhlier Palerme (To Forget Palermo), the novel that last week won France's celebrated Prix Goncourt. Though a colleague claims that the author "really saw this happen in New York," Edmonde Charles-Roux herself denies that Fair is a takeoff on Vogue, which employed her for 16 years. Curiously, the French lady was fired five months ago as editor of the French edition of Vogue, not for her macabre writing but, so she says, because she had argued that...
...applicants answer like students who have forgotten to do their homework. Eventually the counterpoint of questions and answers gets so wholly garbled that the dialogue sounds like one of those elementary conversation books for learning a foreign language. Then the play opens out into a kind of choreographic ritual of modern life, urban herds shuffling to and fro, the commuter's lock step, a cocktail party. It is apparent that interviewers and applicants alike need help: instead of the bread of life, they are fed vacuous cliches by intellectual bubble-gum blowhards representing the church, state, politics and psychoanalysis...
...excels when it comes to the great American ritual of the universal arm squeeze and the indiscriminate smile. Thursday for instance he took his campaign to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city...
...play. Everyone agrees that things were pretty bad before the Revolution, but Sade uses a cast of the permanently and prototypically downtrodden to illustrate his point that the poor will always be poor, the wretched always wretched and deceived by their leaders. Marat is killed as an act of ritual murder (primitive societies sacrifice their great man) and as an act of political punishment (his integrity is in question, his hubris at fault). But Marat/Sade is a play without plot (for the slaying could be done in a trice) and without characters (who are all insane and presumably characterless, obsession...