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...BELIEVE in fairies clap your hands. Do you believe in fairies, Gertie?" Moon asks her pre-school daughter at bedtime. Mother claps her hands, hoping to instill in her child a normal preadolescent faith in a non-existent fantasy world where mythical beings prance. Gertie enthusiastically pounds her little mitts together. Unlike Mom, she knows that in her closed is a small, brown, baggy-skinned, wide-eyed creature from outer space...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Intergalactic Tear-Jerker | 6/29/1982 | See Source »

...salute boomed across Warsaw to begin the official May Day parade last Saturday, a crowd of some 10,000 Poles gathered in the capital's old town began to clap rhythmically. They were not applauding the regime. Instead, they were rallying under the defiant banner of the independent union Solidarity. Flashing the victory sign and waving placards demanding FREE THE INTERNEES, the demonstrators headed off in the general direction of the authorized parade. They called to bystanders to join the march, and soon more than 20,000 were chanting "Solidarity," "Leszek" (for the interned Lech Walesa) and "Down with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: A May Day Show of Defiance | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...orchestra broke into a feisty rendition of "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and the audience, dressed in formal attire, set down their champagne glasses to clap in accompaniment. The colorful constant was raised, and James Cagney, learning lightly on a came, smiled and thanked the crowed for his routing welcome...

Author: By Donald N. Sull, | Title: Cagney Honored As Hasty Pudding Man of the Year | 2/25/1982 | See Source »

...deep blues, reds and greens of their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries to look ferocious. The coconut dance is the most fun and the most intricate, as the children clap halves of coconuts from hand to hand. They flirt, but do not touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...hate it. What do I have? People take off their hats to me, they clap their hands, but tomorrow they might throw stones at me. This is not fun for me. I understand life in different terms. I think that beauty is everywhere, and everything is needed. What would happen if there were no people to clean up? Worms would eat us. There is beauty too in cleaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Lech Walesa | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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