Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film unfolds with various disjointed shots of Benares and its human and animal inhabitants. A farmer picks orange flowers; strong, muscular bodies chop wood; two men assemble a bamboo ladder; white-robed workers hose down flat stone; holy men chant cryptic chants; a small, squeaky boat glides over the river. Then come the bodies, ushering in with them the audience's epiphany. Bodies covered with orange flowers, bodies over flames, bodies on top of bamboo ladders--suddenly, the disjointed pictorial congeals into a single entity. Death. Everyone in this Hindu society lives and labors for their holy deceased...
...when the crowd began to chant, "The coach is bald" at the end of the Crimson victory, Harvard Coach Bill Cleary was quick to return the compliment, nodding, grinning, and joining in the rhythymic hand-clapping...
...independence from Britain. Wearing a bulletproof vest and standing near an 80-ft.-high picture of his mother, the Prime Minister declared that Indira Gandhi was "not my mother alone, but the mother of every poor man and woman in this country." Then he led the crowd in a chant: "Indira Gandhi is immortal...
...quivering hands and mysterious ideas mark the new dry era at Harvard, the official alcohol policy remains as ambiguous as the Reagan Administration's arms control policy. The law is the law, administrators are heard to chant, scaring even yellow robed men in the Square. But what is Harvard policy? This week Daniel Steiner, Derek Bok's answer to Larry Speakes, turns to his mail...
...album hits its peak when Reed assays the extremes of his emotional range. "Temporary Thing," with its high-pitch backbeat and religious-chant vocals, delves into Reed's usual sphere of bad relationships, bad karma, and bad moods. It isn't pleasant, but it is pure and passionate, and it leaves us with Reed's optimistic message that even the worst of things is just a temporary thing...