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...crowd skanking—that knees bent, head-bobbing, white people dance that looks cool when girls do it but really stupid when guys do it, and even started some crowd surfing which amusingly ended in someone’s mom getting kicked in the head. A crowd chant after their last song made Elephantom early favorites.Next up was Disband, or Shy October, or Caitria O’Neill; a pre-show name change confused the Tommy Doyle’s staff, but for continuity’s sake let’s just call them Kathleen Turner Overdrive.The viola...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LINEAR PERSPECTIVE: Rockus | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Masked teenagers lob bricks at police shields, middle-aged women wave banners and chant slogans against repression, while police tanks fire water cannons into rowdy crowds. These images may evoke anti-globalization protests at some high-powered economic summit, but in northern Mexico, they're the latest flash point in the nation's incessant drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War Takes to the Barricades | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

Needy creatures that we are, we put the brain's spiritual centers to use all the time. We pray for peace; we meditate for serenity; we chant for wealth. We travel to Lourdes in search of a miracle; we go to Mecca to show our devotion; we eat hallucinogenic mushrooms to attain transcendent vision and gather in church basements to achieve its sober opposite. But there is nothing we pray - or chant or meditate - for more than health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...They want to be involved in the show, because there are few shows with only women in the cast.”Bryant’s favorite monologue is called “Reclaiming Cunt.” It involves the actress leading the audience in a chant of the word “cunt,” a term that is often used as an obscenity, in order to reclaim the beauty of the word. Some believe the word was derived from the goddess Cunina who guarded infants in their cradles. The new perspective given to the word...

Author: By Melanie E. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Vagina' Welcoming to Actors | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Fittingly, she ended her speech with two rallying cries for solidarity. The first was a Zulu cry, “Wozani!” (“People together!”), often used in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. The second was the traditional UFW chant: “¡Sí Se Puede!” This cry was eventually translated into “Yes, We Can!”, the slogan of President Obama’s 2008 campaign...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo, Miguel Garcia, and Eliana C. Murillo | Title: Yes, She Did! | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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