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THERE IS NOTHING funny about a Polaroid Land camera. But if you want a joke, make one 20 feet high, put it in the middle of the Cambridge Common, and get a dozen people to dance and chant in a circle around it. Enlarging the mundane is an old formula for humor...
...Night Chant of North and South American Indian life, death and regeneration myths. An original ensemble piece by the Theatre Experiment Laboratory at the Boston Centre for the Arts, 541 Tremont St., Boston. Thursdays and Fridays at 8 and Saturdays at 7 and 9:30. Tickets are $3.75. Call 965-0783 for reservations...
...foot and listens raptly to a conch shell. A man dressed like a mechanic, a red wrench protruding from his hip pocket, obsessively chalks mathematical equations in the air. A handsome gray steam engine chugs into view. From the pit a chorus raises a wordless three-note chant...
...exploding overhead, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched over the cobblestones of T'ien An Men Square dutifully shouting "Ta-tao Chiang Ch 'ing [Down with Chiang Ch'ing]." Two of the women who were closest to Mao joined in the anti-Chiang Ch'ing chant. One was Mao's favorite niece, Wang Hai-jung, a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; the other was American-educated Nancy T'ang, the late Chairman's trusted interpreter. Radio Peking claimed that some 3.3 million people had taken to the streets in the Chinese capital...
...sounding like a bunch of Democrats." Although the sentiment for Reagan among his backers needed little prompting, the big demonstration for him on nominating night was far from spontaneous. His delegates had been instructed to begin with "flags, sirens and horns," then, after two minutes, break into the chant "We need Reagan!" Texas and California delegations were to snake dance into the aisles two minutes later. At nine minutes the horns were to dominate the action. But it all went on much longer than planned...