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...Cabot into a convincing inner-city bus stop with the addition of cinder blocks and a graffiti-covered public telephone. The small space works to his advantage because it intensifies the actors' claustrophobia. Bial's blocking follows through on this theme--Joey and Murph circle each other as they chant their song and gradually encircle the Indian after stealing his picture...
...Braves-Pirates clash promised more sparks. Atlanta had located a lode of blithe character in its September pursuit and capture of favored Los Angeles. It helped that everybody hated the damn Dodgers. It didn't hurt that Braves partisans urged the team on with toy tomahawks and a war-chant mantra, which the votaries could moan for innings on end (the dumbest mass spasm since the Wave). By playoff time, the Braves were high and loose. All the Pirates' edgy swagger could not mute the magic -- or solve the riddle of a brilliant Atlanta pitcher, as young and ageless...
...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...