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...Thursday the chant "Down with Duvalier!" was echoing across the country. Said one resident of Cap Haitien: "No one is afraid anymore. Duvalier must go." In Gonaives, thousands of protesters blocked the streets with barricades and burning tires. When the local army headquarters was overrun by anti-Duvalier marchers, agents of the Tonton Macoute tried to open fire, but they were disarmed by an army tactical battalion. Terrified, the agents ripped off their trademark blue denim uniforms and tried to escape the mob's wrath. More crowds demanded that the military overthrow the dictatorship, and rumors started that Baby...
...awhile, the Cameron crowd lowered itself to the familiar "asshole, asshole" chant, but it obediently stopped when Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski came over to the fans at halftime and requested a cessation of the obscenitites...
...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...