Word: ritualizes
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...back to that. The title and credits are ready to roll, and our soggy opening scene is still unresolved. What's going on? The facelike apparition turns out to be a face indeed, that of Newman himself. He has just finished plunging his muzzle into ice water, a ritual of his that, it is said, accounts for much of his eerie youthfulness. Newman was 42 in 1967, for instance, when he appeared in Cool Hand Luke, a character who looked about 28, and who would not have made sense as a man much older than that...
...typical programmed celebration was the recent wedding of Koji Takahashi, 26, an architect, to Kazuko Hasegawa, 23, at Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan...
...wave of Japanese weddings has led to another relatively new and rare Japanese ritual: the divorce ceremony. Japan's baby-boom generation, raised on the Beatles, social protest and affluence, has elevated Japan's divorce rate to an alltime high; three out of ten couples will break up. At a typical split-up rite, guests pay a fee for food and drink. The couple apologize to family and friends and return their rings...
DIED. Erving Goffman, 60, unorthodox sociologist whose provocative books (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Forms of Talk) developed his somewhat mordant theories of contemporary ritual, based upon the overlooked small print of daily life (gossip, gestures, even grunts), in such settings as mental asylums and advertising columns; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
...observers worried. His fragile five-party coalition government riven by infighting over economic policy, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had to try twice earlier this month before his resignation was accepted by an irritated President Sandro Pertini. In the resulting political vacuum, Pertini last week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare and the mandate to form Italy's 43rd postwar government was the Christian Democratic president of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani...