Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loudest baseball crowd in memory when the National League playoffs move to Atlanta Saturday, but it will add unique twists to playoff lore: the tomahawk chop and the war chant...
Verrell was impressed with the chop and chant during the Dodgers' September visit to Atlanta...
These days the comparisons are far less flattering. At rallies, protesters chant "Ceausescu, Ceausescu!" Gamsakhurdia apparently takes seriously the reference to Romania's toppled, and summarily executed, dictator. For the past three weeks he has barricaded himself inside the Georgian parliament, where he is guarded by hundreds of National Guardsmen. When he ventures out, it is in one of two bulletproof Mercedes, for which Gamsakhurdia spent $460,000. But he bristles at being compared with the Romanian. "These people do not know what a dictator really is," he fumes, his dark eyes smoldering. "Could you really imagine such actions...
They are not the ones who could chant and march, because they can't afford to. They are old people living in small Moscow apartments who need free medical care. Old people with a lifetime's saving--partially gutted by Gorbachev's efforts at currency reform, but a savings that promised stability. They are low-level party bureaucrats who need their jobs to raise their families...
...peaceably to shake free of the plastic society, hug each other, wear feathers, wear safety pins through their eyelids (as a few metal-head teenagers do), dance all night, smoke pot (some of them), jiggle around nude (some of them), soak themselves with beer (a troublesome minority), rant or chant or quietly meditate...