Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Impersonating Crimson cheerleaders, a beer-drenched crowd of Kirkland men took up a chant and acrobatically spelled...
While Police fans know that Sting's vocal vocabulary is extensive; ranging from smooth soulful falsettos and calypso lilts to yelps and fierce warning tones; the dominant Sting style on this album is a plaintive ethereal, no doubt sincere, chant-singing. It becomes a trifle tiresome, especially on the preachy first side. Here, he casts himself as a minister/sage, eager to dispense his wisdom. But Sting's poetry is most often second-hand or simplistic...
...nation's future, and some people still imagine it to be a Rockwellian scene of mostly pink-cheeked children spelling out the adventures of Dick and Jane. But come for a moment to the playground of the Franklin elementary school in + Oakland, where black girls like to chant their jump-rope numbers in Chinese. "See you manana," one student shouts with a Vietnamese accent. "Ciao!" cries another, who has never been anywhere near Italy. And let it be noted that the boy who won the National Spelling Bee in Washington last month was Balu Natarajan, 13, who was born...
...foremost question in Sudan last week was whether Suwar al Dahab's 15- member military council, composed of senior officers, would make good on the chant raised during the heady moments of the takeover: "The people and the army are one." Through much of the Nimeiri era, opposition political parties, professional groups and unions were forced underground. Last week they all bubbled to the surface again, banding together in a group that they christened the Alliance of Forces for National Salvation, distributing tracts and stating their determina- tion to reclaim their rights. To pacify them, the council ordered the arrest...
...ANTIWAR CHANT...