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...scoreless first half saw hard-hitting action on both ends of the field, with Connecticut having the best scoring opportunity on a scrum just yards from the Black and White goal line. But the Black and White, spurred by the crowd chant "peanut butter cookies yum, yum, yum; come on Radcliffe win that scrum," did just that, and advanced the ball out of its zone...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Near-Upset for W.Rugby | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

After all, the new culture isn't all angst and evil. Was it not the venerable Bill and Ted themselves who commanded, "Be excellent to each other?" Words to live by, without a doubt. So, brothers and sisters, let us all join cable lines, flip on MTV, and together chant the mantra of our generation...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: The Vulgar Generation | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

This observation does not mean that people who chant "more women" never think. Rather, those who chant "more women" are so certain of their cause that they often fail to appreciate the logic behind the goal...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Hollow Feminism | 10/9/1993 | See Source »

...event, to be on the radio internationally, will be a colossal one even by Met standards. The tenors have no firmer fan than their maestro for the evening, Met music director James Levine. He bridles when critics chant the over-the-hill blues -- that Domingo has lost his top notes or that Pavarotti phones in the arias. Says Levine: "When Pavarotti sings L'Elisir d'Amore with such youth and spontaneity or Domingo explores the depths of Parsifal, now that is artistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Knights of the Opera | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After one lass gives a jaunty account of Christ's miracle of the loaves and fishes, Sister Keating, the teacher, asks, " 'And what do we call that, Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirt From The Old Sod | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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