Word: chantings
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...Hollywood took its manners from Washington: most of the celebrities dressed conservatively and behaved decorously. And the civilians lined up for the big parade, where the Lesbian & Gay Bands of America played and Girl Scouts passed out American flags and AIDS ribbons. A Clinton spotting could cue an impromptu chant: "Chel-sea! Chel-sea!" at the hot-ticket MTV Ball. Though the rockers booed Tipper Gore for her lyric-sanitation campaign, they gave a hand to Clinton's rowdy half-brother Roger. And so did the music industry. Atlantic Records snagged him to preserve forever his rendition of Sam Cooke...
...clear as on a morning after rain. Silence, ideally, hums. It charges the air. In Tibet, where the silence has a tragic cause, it is still quickened by the fluttering of prayer flags, the tolling of temple bells, the roar of wind across the plains, the memory of chant...
Costumed demonstrators chant Halloween protest poems outside Rudenstine's home...
...Sticks and stones may break my bones," goes the old adage. "Names will never hurt me." But for many Spanish-speaking people, the matter of names cannot simply be brushed aside in a child's chant...
...offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name of Jesus...