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Hall raises a clenched fist and rotates it in a circle, inspiring the crowd to respond with its trademark barking chant: "Wooh! Wooh! Wooh!" He races over to bandleader Michael Wolff and greets him by touching index fingers. (No old-fashioned high-fives on The Arsenio Hall Show.) He bounds in and out of the audience, paying special attention to the folks in the bad seats behind the band. By the end of his opening monologue, the crowd is wired. Johnny Carson signals the start of his show with a decorous golf swing. Hall launches the proceedings with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Let's Get Busy!! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...mostly Black crowd roared with approval, changing its chant from the traditional "Dinkins, Dinkins" to a more familiar "David, David...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tradition and Changes Mix in Big Apple Vote | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

Vabadus! Vabadus! Vabadus! With interlocking hands held high, Estonians joined together in lines four and six deep in Tallinn to chant a single word: "Freedom!" The invocation was echoed last week all along a human chain, formed by an estimated 2 million people, that stretched from the Estonian capital of Tallinn across Latvia and into neighboring Lithuania to end at Gediminas Tower in Vilnius, some 400 miles from the starting point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chain of Freedom | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...cases occurring across the U.S. More and more teenagers, acting individually or in gangs, are running amuck. In the Central Park incident, young toughs said they were "wilding," which apparently means marauding with no purpose in mind but to create havoc and hurt people. In Philadelphia packs of youths chant "Beat, beat, beat" as they roam the streets looking for victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...game of white-flannel elegance as it is played at the Marylebone Cricket Club in London. Oh, no! This is tropical, Technicolor kirikiti -- buxom girls in lemon yellow shirts and sky blue skirts thwacking around a homemade rubber ball with a three-sided bat, while supporters rhythmically chant and dance and beat vigorously on biscuit tins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pago Pago, American Samoa Whose Nation Is This Anyway? | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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