Word: chanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe it was that my feet hurt. A hectic Harvard schedule, three-inch heeled boots and hard cement walkways don't usually combine to produce happy feet at the end of the day, and Friday night was no exception. So when a satin and linen-clad chanter from Monk's ensemble recited a 20th century Hasidic saying in a soothing voice, I felt like I was receiving free counseling for the world-weary. "Put off thy shoes from thy feet," he chanted as contented audience members rustled with laces, "put off the habitual which encloses your foot and you will...
Avery's mad movies were about movement--motion exploded into violent emotion. In Magical Maestro an illusionist transforms an opera singer into a ballerina, an Indian, a widdle boy, a Hawaiian war chanter. As a wolf spies Red Hot Riding Hood, his tongue springs out zigzaggy and his eyes pop out in sections like a dozen contact lenses. No director, of cartoons or live action, vacuum-packed his gags as tightly as Avery...