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...social position and the opportunist money-grubbing that buys such status. O'Donnell's game is played by the Peabodies and the Woolworths, who cavort on stage, singing "We went and bought ourselves a lot of mystique..." The audience--Pudding members, patrons, and impressionable followers--love it. They clap and laugh at the lyrics thrown in their faces: Where the action is high-paced A million dollars can go to waste We've embraced its lack of taste Hey Whaddya say Lets all be tots in tinseltown today. On the Pudding's stage, this Hollywood 1930's parody becomes description...
...irreverence with his cloying presentation of little Heavenly's fate in Sweet Bird of Youth. Heavenly has had her "youth" cut out, leaving her "to rattle like a dried-up vine where the gulf wind blows." Bluntly put, she underwent a hysterectomy at age 15 after getting the clap from her lover, Superstud Chance Wayne, just before he skipped town to pursue a gigolo's career. Now, years later, Chance returns to claim Heavenly, ignorant of the harm he has done...
...Army crowd, traditionally spirited in home territory, was silenced by the pummeling. "Every five or so points, you would hear people clap," Kaplan said yesterday. "But then you wouldn't hear anything again for a really long time...
...coats. Especially at the start of the game, it seemed as if an entire Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had mistakenly shown up, somewhat bewildered but nonetheless quite polite, at a baseball stadium. The crowd--or rather, the audience--was not so much enthusiastic as appreciative. They did not clap, they applauded; and if they did clap, they certainly didn't yell. A healthy rooter two rows back with a pathological hatred of Pete Rose was one of the few not intimidated by the surrounding patrons, who ogled her at every shout as though she had asked for Captain Crunch cereal...
Little, who faces trial in North Carolina Superior Court next month for breaking and entering, ended her remarks by saying she felt "the beat of the people." She began to tap on the podium, and the crowd started to clap along in rhythm. She and a friend then led the audience in "I Woke Up This Morning With a Mind Set on Freedom...