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...this a dormitory? And don't 250 students live here? So where is everybody? Where is the party, the beer, the music? At least there should be some music! Over in the common room some guy is playing the piano and upstairs some other guy is doing a Gregorian chant, but c'mon! Where are the tunes? Where is the Springsteen? Who are these people? But of course...they're first and second-year med students...
...asked what he would drink in celebration. "Everything," he replied. To Philadelphia fans, he deserved no less. More than 1 million fans - in a city of about 1.5 million - turned out the next day for a victory parade and rally, jubilantly joining in as McGraw led the long-awaited chant...
THROUGHOUT the opening of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith director Fred Schepisi continually dissects static tableaus. The camera suddenly cuts from the scene at hand to a minute corner of the picture: In the lapse of conversation suddenly one is looking at a swarm of termites on a windowsill. A domestic portrait gives way to an extreme closeup of a rusty knife cutting through bread--the sound suddenly amplified and grating. Idyllic farm panoramas are interrupted with scenes of chicken roosters being slaughtered, huge shears go through sheep's wool, the camera slowly absents itself from a sermon and creeps...
...beginning of the third round, Ali waved to the crowd, which responded with an extended version of the familiar chant...
...torchlit march may seem like ancient history to underclassmen, and its chant, "the struggle continues," has faded. But even now, some seniors says they can still hear it echoing through the Yard...