Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Times report of that anti-American chant must have particularly astonished the paper's immigrant readers. They, after all, have come to L.A. with everything staked on a belief that American myths are real. Richard Yen-Shih Koo arrived from Taiwan in 1965. "I saw the good life in the United States," he says without irony, "as heaven...
...Lawrence at Wisconsin: Save some pity for Gary Weicker. The Larries' star goalie had a rough outing in the ECAC third-place game loss to UNH. Even worse, he's venturing into the home of the infamous, noisy, red-clad Badger fans--the inventors of the "sieve" chant. Weicker's chief nemesis will be All-American forward Pat Flatley...
...Jersey, THINK EWING! THINK!; in Philadelphia's Palestra, EWING IS AN APE. When Ewing was introduced there someone in the crowd tossed a banana peel onto the court. T shirts and buttons have been manufactured bearing the slogan: EWING KANT READ DIS, which is also a recurring chant at the games. Not surprisingly, Patrick Ewing, 20, has had a few fights this year. Racism is not surprising. It pervade sports and life. But the overtness of ape banners and bananas on the floor is chilling...
...song and mid dialogue "Funnler. Louder!" one person yells. "You're so sexy great legs, Rick!" shouts out another Moments later. "Take it off" becomes a back-row rallying cry. another patron with high alcoholic content loudly observes to Gustave that he is fat. But the overriding chant is Rick-line!" The audience is turned on by a long and superbly choreographed lead-in to the show's footwork finale, and 12 Holyoke St. shakes when the hirsute legs...
Anybody can sing and chant...