Word: casbah
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...Tuvinian people of the Soviet Union, an individual can sing two melodies simultaneously. That has wonderful possibilities. Might one cross in the Tuvinian mind two simultaneous numbers, like, say, Bing Crosby's Mississippi Mud ("It's a treat to beat your feet.. .") with Rock the Casbah by the Clash? Would the Tuvinian stay sane if that happened...
...newly elected chief executive. Were it not for the Harvard and Currier House banners hanging from the wall, a casual observer might have mistaken the Duke for Dick Clark and the dancers for participants on American Bandstand. After the blessing, Dukakis exits and the Clash's "Rock the Casbah" fills the cavernous building...
...second half of the marathon begins reinvigorating the dancers with new determination. Mr. Walkman, #284, dances with himself in front of a mirror and then plays air guitar and bass with a broom. At 7:30, music starts repeating, starting with "Rock the Casbah," "I Love Rock and Roll," and "Start...
Early this year, a Jewish seminary student was murdered in Hebron's casbah, presumably by Arab assailants. Following the murder, the Israeli army clamped a ten-day curfew on the center of Hebron. But it was a discriminatory curfew. While Arab residents were confined to their homes, Jewish settlers, armed with rifles and pistols, strolled through the streets...
...this point, it is worth noting the three basic speech patterns of Greek tragedy. Hecuba embarks on a lamentation that might be called the first language of the Middle East, stretching around the Mediterranean crescent from the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem to the melancholy, snakelike flutes of the Casbah. The second mode is anathema, the curse absolute. The third is the speech of self-absolution. Protagonists in Greek plays never blame themselves for their actions. Either the gods made them do it, or their enemies are culpable or they are the victims of tyche: luck or blind chance...