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Many celebrants formed congo lines throughout the ballroom, mocking the Republican loss with repetitions of "Na, na, na, na...Hey, hey, hey...Goodbye...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Massachusetts Dems Celebrate Victory | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

Several times during the night they broke into choruses of "Aiir-ball, Air-ball," and with the game well in hand, they crooned an old basketball favorite: "Na-Na-Na-Na...Hey, Hey, Goodbye...

Author: By Justin R. P. ingersoll, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: W. Cagers Try to Salvage Second As Big Green Rolls in for Ivy Season Finale | 3/10/1992 | See Source »

...Chapel Concerts--presents Na'ama Loin, baroque flute; Dana Maiben, baroque violin; Jane Hershey, viola da gama; and Peter Sykes, harpsichord, performing works by Telemann, Le Clair and others. MIT Chapel, 77 Mass Ave., Cambridge. Thursday, Feb. 20. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...have been an unfamiliar situation for the Soviet Union. Gorbachev has been the nation's most abstemious leader. Stalin was a hard drinker, and Khrushchev was known for making hasty decisions under the influence of alcohol. Brezhnev and his entourage loved nothing better than raising glasses and toasting "Na zdorovye ((to your health))." As vodka once fueled communist rule, so it has hastened its downfall. The American poet John Ciardi, who died in 1986, wrote prophetically about vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saved by the Bottle | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...breathless silence falls on the packed New Delhi movie hall that is showing the Hindi film Hum Se Na Takrana (Don't Confront Me). As the predominantly male audience watches transfixed, a scene shows two lusty sons of a rich landlord cornering a pretty, well-endowed maid in their plush bedroom. "Let me go," she implores, but the men's hands move toward her writhing body. The camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Romance and A Little Rape | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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