Word: rituals
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...This holiday is just a painful ritual where you have to go through your little black book and worry about sending the right people the right things to keep them all happy," says a male Canaday freshman. "And this freshman dance is a pretty stupid idea. I'm boycotting...
...People call all week long," said Graham Hayward, the maitre d'. "They want to reserve a table down front. People make it a ritual every Sunday night." Hayward's boss, Dolores Shea, who with her husband Tom runs O'Shea's (the O got separated from the family two generations back), offered this blessing: "They've done very well. They don't draw teenagers, but they draw everybody else. We've had steel bands, Dixieland, everything, but the big band is neat, especially our big band. Now just listen to that." They were playing Stella by Starlight...
...hard-core bodybuilding addicts head for the free weight room, which also serves as a refuge for out-of-season varsity athletes. Top 40 music blares from a box as approximately 20 men execute their daily ritual of pumping iron...
...faded leather jacket, is all that keeps George from losing himself to the streets. When he wakes each morning from his makeshift bed of newspapers in the subway tunnels of Philadelphia, he heads for the rest room of a nearby bus station or McDonald's and begins an elaborate ritual of washing off the dirt and smells of homelessness: first the hands and forearms, then the face and neck and finally the fingernails and teeth. Twice a week he takes off his worn Converse high tops and socks and washes his feet in the sink, ignoring the cold stares...
...many communities the old ritual of playing outdoors after school has largely disappeared. In urban families in which both parents work, youngsters are often told to stay safely indoors. Then, too, there is the lure of computer games and television. Youngsters spend on average 24 hours a week before the flickering tube, all too frequently with fattening snack readily at hand. Some children may simply be sprouts of couch-potato parents, but even when elders set a sprightly example, it is not always enough. Aerobics Advocate Cooper, who skis and runs, most often finds his 16-year-old son Tyler...