Word: ritually
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...think some Dunster activist would stand up and protest this mass killing. But not so. This murderous spree must fall more in line with the house's annual goat-slaughtering ritual...
...half the point behind this ritual is that it's not just about who wins the election. Many on-lookers come to watch the event as if it were a football game or musical...
...Anyone could see that it's much more than counting ballots. It's obviously a very compelling community ritual," said Gerber...
...group promised to try to make the event a little more impressive in the spring. "This year, we just randomly set the clock on the stick on fire to make it kind of exciting," said Anderson, who offered no hints as to what the spring ritual may offer
...Jacques Rivette's four-hour La Belle Noiseuse. The phrase is loosely translated as "the beautiful nut case," but Frenhofer, not Marianne, is the genial lunatic: a man of the world who is a mad monk for his art. In his atelier the two act out a primal ritual of man appraising, adoring, subjugating and re-creating woman. This glamorous film, which won second prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and deserved even better, can be taken as a commentary on the creation of anybody's art: hard work that is its own reward. Its mind is Rivette...