Word: singsonging
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...wearer of that garment comes forward, the woman next to her winces at having been passed by. After another huddle, Hornaday says, "That's all." Immediately, a silver-haired man with a clipboard steps in from the side of the stage and intones in a swift singsong, "Those in the front line, please wait on the right. For the rest, thank you very much and please leave, as quickly as possible, the way you came in." Silently, like defendants in traffic court, the losers gather their street clothes and slip...
...that invites deejays at local dance palaces to "scratch" the surface. The deejays set the needle down in the groove of a record, turn the disc back and forth and get weird, repeated percussive effects, then jump quickly to another groove, another record, while some rap groups, called MCs, singsong over the music. The result, besides being danceable and extremely def, is familiar and disorienting at once. Just like the clothes...
...front of Eliot House, a short man in a gray jockey was shouting at the Class of '57 and that families in a high, singsong voice. "Hey, do we love Harvard? Yes we do Everybody loves Harvard. Yes, yes, we do! hey, hos about a antenna for your head...
...behind them, "What is a Moloch?" Others, perhaps, are reflecting on their own older-but-wiser bemusement about antiwar and anti-Establishment excesses of the 1960s, a decade later than the poem. But Ginsberg's humor is intentional. His contemplative, rounded voice has tightened into singsong waggery...
...special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence about how to stay straight while being more cool than the druggies. When he sings, the mild jingle becomes a heavy-rhythm wail...