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...preening adolescents in the line outside the venue clap and form a circle. The scalper mumbles a few swears and skulks off to his three-legged dog. I’m drunk and Jack’s thrilled because he nearly got in a fight...
...aspect of “Art for the Revolution” in Tiny Hawks’ empowerment-through-music, though the message is much more visceral than the latter group of theory-enthusiasts’ frequent over-intellectualizations: “Let’s start to clap our hands to match something as loud as the dogs themselves…as joy is thrown to the wolves we’ll take it all back in song, as the root, as the main sail.” In this, Tiny Hawks succeeds where a lot of other so-called...
After the Crimson men were able to pull out their first dual meet victory in over a year by beating Northeastern by a score of 75-68, the team decided to resurrect its old tradition and engaged in a hearty victory clap...
...things turned out the National Government were obliged to take Sterling off gold (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Their next bold policy, after winning a general election in which they asked for a "free hand," was to scrap historic Free Trade and clap on protective tariffs which have given all British activities tremendous impetus. Today the Empire has happy sensations of lifting itself by its own bootstraps rapidly out of Depression...
...sometimes aggressive (when action films delight in breaking their expensive toys), often rude (when comedies exult in wisecracks and flatulence) and, once in a while, awestruck by the splendor of the imagination. Films that aim honorably at evoking childlike wonder are so rare, so vulnerable, that one wants to clap three times and shout, as kids do seeing Peter Pan, "I do believe in fairies! I do, I do!"--until the drab reality of a botched movie shakes an audience to its senses...