Word: chants
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...gain investor trust and employee loyalty, Ogami deliberately set about developing his own cult of personality. In daily business meetings, his employees were forced to chant his pithy sayings from what he called "the messiah's creed"; those who balked risked getting the sack. Like a video-age Wizard of Oz, Ogami projected to the public a larger-than-life?and largely fictional?image of himself in reams of expensively produced promotional material. He marketed himself as one-part Jet Li and one-part Mohandas Gandhi, a martial arts expert with a cartoon catchphrase: "I will save the world...
...high-caste Hindu in an overwhel-mingly Muslim region, perhaps Koul should have known better. As her blessed childhood unfolds, she catches glimpses of the fire to come?a half-heard chant of "Long live Pakistan," Muslim boys smiling as they burn a tiny effigy of India's Hindu Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Koul leaves to raise a family in the U.S. just as Kashmir plunges into crisis. And she can only watch as it blows apart. But this is not meant to be a political treatise; it's a paean to the past. Koul succeeds through sensuous detail...
...down with rods and sticks until they broke them over the edge. Then they cut him all over with kukris. All the time they shouted, 'Why do you spy? Why did you take our comrades to the police?' Then they asked everyone to be silent and demanded my brother chant their song, that Mao is the best." After about an hour, says Yadav, two men laid his brother on the ground, each gripping an iron rod. "They put one through his stomach and another through his shoulder." The guerrillas then firebombed the house. Yadav says the Maoists also beat...
Bridges said she became so used to the chant that she used to jump rope...
Other highlights from the evening included “Food and Creative Love,” starting off with Wertz’s sexy vocals and building up to a frantic chant. The mellower “Back to the Earth,” featured a tribal call-and-response between Glabicki and other band members, with the audience joining in. About three-quarters of the way through the two-hour show, drummer Jim Donovan started a percussion improvisation that went on for over ten minutes, drawing in one band member after another until everyone on stage was part...