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Part of the fun of having (or teaching) children is the vicarious reliving of one's own childhood--reading the stories aloud that you remember having read to you, renting videotapes of the movies that enchanted you or gave you nightmares, reconnecting with Ernie and Bert.
And Chaplin makes a marvelous partner for Smith's vivaciously silly Mrs. Penniman, all shiny-eyed with vicarious pleasure and perfumed by her own cheap romanticism.
A temple is a building where, as a rule, no meetings are held but where Mormons go for certain ceremonies, including vicarious ordinances (ordinances on be half of one's ancestors), for celestial marriages (technically, celestial marriage is the institution of marriage that extends past death, as generally understood, and the wedding ceremony itself is called a temple marriage ), and a place where one receives one's endowment .
The Wall Street Journal 's "Work Week" column reports that the notion of "vicarious liability" of a company for behavior by its employees that it doesn't even know about is spreading well beyond the Supreme Court's application last spring of that concept to sexual harassment.
The cover story identifies a new trend: "Explornography: The vicarious thrill of exploring when there's nothing left to explore."