Word: chante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music from the soundtrack of The Ten Commandments swells to a crescendo, then fades as a clapping chant, "Za-rur-Za-rur," fills the loudspeakers. "Brothers," a soft voice intones, "Jesus Christ told me I should be President of Brazil. But Jesus is not my campaign manager. I am his. If I win, Jesus will govern. I will deliver Brazil into the hands of God. The people are waking up and saying, 'I want Jesus to rule Brazil...
...Goddess), the attractive young girl Donamayee teases a pet bird and is teased in turn by her husband. Then, suddenly revealed as a incarnation of the Mother Goddess, she finds herself worshipped by her family, adored by crowds of pilgrims. She sits enthroned in an incense-clouded temple; priests chant and bells clang...
Monsieur Incognito, Chez Sabine, La Bande en Noir, Le Chant d' Amour...
...performed not only to innduce plant and animal procreation, but to bring fertile thoughts to a chief in making an important decision: but knowledge still leaves an audience a good distance from feeling. One way Miss Primus drew her audience closer was to have them sing the antiphonal chant for her last piece, the conga; and others of her dances, like the jivey "high-life," include the audience by sheer force of exuberance...
...movie uses sound effects as well as photography to indicate some of Golding's varied tones. The choir's chant "Kyrie eleison" becomes first a march and then a primitive, frightening rhythm (but one hears a choir singing when Simon's body floats in the glowing sea). The buzzing of flies around the Lord of the Flies conveys the same overpowering, sickening fear as does Golding's description...