Word: chanted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what [she] believes [he’s] going to hell.” There have been far too many diss-tracks scattered amongst the denizens of the hip-hop world and far too few attacks on born-again Christians. Finally, this deficiency is rectified. Plus, there is an extended chant that religious intolerance has led us to the Crusades and the Sept. 11 attacks. And he makes the flow work. It might have been pedantic, but there was some smart producer who understood a clapping, jungle sound-based beat would ground the oddly serious narrative in club frivolity...
...shocking-pink leotards, parade forward and wriggle in formation to the tune of Ghostbusters, each with a small black rifle in her hand. And then, all of a sudden, there comes a thumping of feet and a building of intensity and the thunderous eruption of a mass-rally chant: "U.S.A. Fight! Fight! Fight...
...even into the night. The Basilica is closed for cleaning from 3 am to 5 am, but most of the people outside simply wait patiently for it to reopen. And they appear to be deeply moved by the experience of being part of this history unfolding before them. They chant the rosary, and sometimes just the name "Giovanni Paolo" in a rhythmic chorus, as they wait for hours to get a few seconds glance at the pontiff as they pass by his body...
...week, Alan Garca Prez bounded onstage at his party headquarters to proclaim victory in the race for the presidency "Now the Peruvian people will change governments, change the economy, change politics and consolidate democracy," he told his supporters. The ecstatic crowd of 5,000 responded with the chant: "Alan, Presidente! Alan, Presidente...
...FRIDAY night at about 10:10 p.m. my epiphany came. I was in my room in the process of getting ready, when the monk-like chant made its way to my ears. My male roommates on the rugby team were having their team drink-up in the common room upstairs. “UHS, UHS, UHS!” they cried, in voices full and strong. “I’m gonna go to the hospital!” It was then that it hit me: these guys had goals. Lofty goals. And they were actively pursuing them...