Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bourgeois realism and its "Western association. Themes of capitalist imperialism, the superpowers' hegemony over East Asia during WWII, Cold War ideology, and the Korean people's long-standing enmity against imperialist Japanese, who colonized Korea from 1905 to 1945, are played out allegorically amidst the liberating outbursts of ritual and dance...
Israel's state airline, El Al, which sets the world standard for security, relies mainly on people, rather than machines, to spot danger. El Al's thoroughness sometimes infuriates passengers, who must endure a check-in ritual that includes hand searches of carry-on luggage, minute scrutiny of passports and rigorous quizzing of passengers about the contents of their luggage. Result: El Al can boast that none of its planes has been hijacked since...
...action speeds up, they swing rolled- up sheets that churn around Penny Hutchinson, who plays a sort of heroine- housewife. Set to music and words by Herschel Garfein, the fantasy moves from borderline silly to giddily lyrical. Morris laughs at soap-company ad pitches but not at the washday ritual. For the indomitable housewife he has open affection...
...discrimination arises from the Roman Catholic assertion that ordination gives the church's priests the power to invoke in the Eucharist a real, mysterious re-enactment of the body-and-blood "sacrifice" of Jesus Christ. Beginning in 1552, argued the papal bull, the ordination ritual in Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer erased all mention of the priestly commission to offer sacrifice. Without such a commission, Leo ruled, in Roman Catholic terms the Anglican ordinations were defective both in the form (words) of the ritual and in the intention of the original celebrants of the rite...
...Caribbean sun set, an honor guard lowered the billowing red-and-black flag in front of Haiti's presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. For more than two decades that daily ritual had been private: ordinary citizens were not permitted on the street that leads to the sprawling white residence from which the Duvalier family governed Haiti. Last week the twilight flag lowering was witnessed close up for the first time by a crowd of hundreds: "Change it!" they chanted. "Change...