Word: chant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more daunting challenge: to remain uncolonized by the New Hollywood. The best directors have been wooed to the U.S. to make the same kinds of films but bigger, and without all those people who talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road. Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive...
...loonies, the climax came with a minute left and Cornell's win assured. A particularly crazed student he must have been known to the crowd beforehand--stood to lead a well coordinated and amazingly loud chant of "Which team is the winning team? Which team is the losing team...
Outside the diplomatic entrance to the State Department Building in Washington last week, a small knot of demonstrators gathered to chant slogans and wave placards. But if the protesters' target, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, was bothered by the demonstration, he gave no sign of it. After a private discussion with Secretary of State George Shultz, followed by a working lunch, Botha claimed confidently that the U.S. had a "real chance" of resolving one of southern Africa's thorniest problems: getting independence for Namibia, a vast, arid territory controlled by South Africa. Echoed a senior State...
Stopping by a luggage store in Beverly Hills, Australian Author Thomas Keneally, 47 (The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith), struck up a conversation with the shopkeeper, Paul Page, 70. Discovering that Keneally was a writer, Page hauled out letters and documents and recounted how Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, had saved the lives of 1,300 Jews who had been assigned by the Nazis to work at his factory in Cracow, Poland, during World War II. Page, one of the 1,300, said that Schindler, a Roman Catholic, had died in 1974 and was buried in Jerusalem as one of Israel...
...vigil beneath the second-story window of his apartment block on the outskirts of Gdansk. Suddenly, late in the evening, an excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with a drooping mustache. Looking noticeably more rotund, Walesa, 39, had come home...