Word: ritually
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...anticipation and the space itself all add to the story of the entertainment. Spaces, architectural enclosures, shape our relation to an event. You can pray at home. But a church, mosque or synagogue gives prayer scale, grace and a heightened sense of spirituality because of the aura of sacred ritual deemed appropriate within the religious house. People cling to ritual. It gives structure and comfort to chaos. It creates a sense...
...large theater, and the experience will be doubly charged, not by the size of the screen but by the energy of the audience. Coliseums, football stadiums, rock concerts--to be a part of the action, as opposed to just being a voyeur, is as old as the ritual of performance. Yet bigger does not necessarily mean better. Off-Broadway theater is doing very well right now, and the physical intimacy of the live event has a lot to do with its success. Feeling that your presence affects the event may become more and more important as we look...
...House, En Passant, and A Portrait of Arshile-on Saturday night. Although these films were basically released "off the radar" as Egoyan puts it, they are still important works to him on a personal level. "I've always been interesting in the way thinking has become a kind of ritual and how we do many things without being consciously aware of it. I think there's certainly a facet of absurdity in human nature and I wanted to explore its impact on human nature, especially in works like Peep Show and Open House...
...However, as the montage of writings on the silver panel of the wall seems to indicate, the women that partake in this library ritual look inside themselves and come up with strikingly different results. With more than 50 entries in total, the women mention the art of autumn leaf placements--a "therapeutic activity, much like reading the books at Buck-A-Book"-- quote e.e. cummings `15, "To be thy lips is a sweet thing and small" and discuss everything in between. A neatly scrawled blue ballpoint hand offers sage advice, "You cannot change what has already past...
...familiar ritual, news reports quickly and poignantly filled out the lives that matched the names on the passenger list. The six Clemetsons were a bright-eyed young family: a doctor, his wife, two sons and two daughters. A single Seattle school, John Hay Elementary, lost four of its students...