Word: ritualizes
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...article "Football as Erotic Ritual" [Nov. 13] is really the pits. Sexual symbolism and ritual could be applied to most any activity if that's your hangup. Give the jocks and their fans a break. Forget the kinky gimmicks...
...idea of football being a homosexual ritual is pretty wild. But then I think football is aggressive and violent, right? Well, war's aggressive and violent. And when you think about it, those missiles and cannons all have some pretty heavy sexual overtones about them. Can you imagine what would happen if we convinced the world that every time a war is fought, homosexuality runs rampant...
...almost unimaginable carnage. In an appalling demonstration of the way in which a charismatic leader can bend the minds of his followers with a devilish blend of professed altruism and psychological tyranny, some 900 members of the California-based Peoples Temple died in a self-imposed ritual of mass suicide and murder...
...known survivor had witnessed the entire ritual of death, so just how Jones died remained uncertain. He was found at the foot of his pavilion chair with a bullet wound in his head, an apparent suicide. A pistol lay near by. An autopsy disclosed that Jones had not consumed the poison and had not been dying of cancer, as he had often told his followers...
...classic Watergate question: Who knew what and when? Clues are left around by the lovers and consciously ignored by their spouses. Pinter astutely realizes how often the right not to know is invoked by the cuckolded. The real betrayal of the title seems to be the violation of the ritual of male bonding. Jerry worries very little about what he is doing to Judith, but he feels guilty as hell about what he is doing to Robert. In a Pinter play, woman, whether Ruth in The Homecoming or Stella in The Collection, is the catalyst of male discord...