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...Lennon music today. I will watch the video of Lennon insouciantly chewing gum as he sang "All You Need Is Love" live to 400 million people by satellite in June 1967. I will laugh as I watch him tweak stuffy pomposity again and again: "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you just rattle your jewelry." And I will weep still more tears at the loss of a man who inspired me in my childhood - and who inspires me to this day. It's a drag. And I'm inconsolable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Lennon | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...only question--and it worried the folks in Austin--was this: Would the Republican delegates clap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: What It Took | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Journalists don't clap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: What I Learned | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Journalists don't clap. For 15 years, as a writer and reporter listening to politicians speak, I'd affected the universal pose of my brethren: a slightly bored indifference, perhaps jotting down a note here and there, raising an eyebrow, riffling through the prepared text in search of a quote - but never, ever clapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from a Campaign | 11/4/2000 | See Source »

...skepticism also comes from the fact that babies already "sign." Without instruction, drilling and repetition, they point, clap, nod their heads and otherwise indicate what they want. The intensity of the communication between an involved parent and baby--meeting the baby's gaze directly, talking to her and following her cues--means that, ideally, the baby is teaching the parent her own signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Signs Of The Times | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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