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...closet” and asking us, “What does ‘TP-3’ even mean?” Eventually the band started clinking their plates and glasses in rhythm, and the dinner party became some mutated version of recent B-side “Clap Hands.” Some of the assembled masses did more than clap their hands, though, as Beck invited at least a dozen random crowd members onstage to dance through “E-Pro” and “Get Real Paid” in the encore...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let Doctor Hansen Rock You | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

Facing each other in a tight circle, fingers spread and palms making a sharp crack as they clap, the men of the village of Ianapus tattoo the dark ground with their rhythmic stomping. In contrast to the chaotic rainforest that covers most of their island of Tanna, the surface of the men's dancing ground is bare earth, compacted and smooth from countless years of ritual. Today their strong voices sing here for the success of the yam harvest and the bounty of gardens to come. Young boys, clad like their fathers and uncles only in the nambas, or penis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Back the Clock | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...cautious." Whether some of that caution crept into Loco Motive is hard to know, but anyone expecting controversy will be surprised. Troy calls himself "the last of the Brohicans" on the Kid Rock-ish Beast on the Mic and asks the ladies to "get low" and "make it clap" on the willfully stupid (and thoroughly enjoyable) My Last Yee Haw, but the album is hardly a paragon of genre-bending ambition. Most of it falls squarely, if not unpleasantly, within the accepted boundaries of modern country. Mixed in with the inoffensive party tracks (including one that makes a commendable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Troy | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

...their few remaining clothes. Cook’s men infected the natives with devastating venereal diseases, which were transmitted back in a vicious cycle. Ledyard was infected. In Hawaii, the natives “aplly’d to us, for help in their great distress: they had a Clap, their Penis was much swell’d, & inflamed,” a lieutenant reported...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...their few remaining clothes. Cook’s men infected the natives with devastating venereal diseases, which were transmitted back in a vicious cycle. Ledyard was infected. In Hawaii, the natives “aplly’d to us, for help in their great distress: they had a Clap, their Penis was much swell’d, & inflamed,” a lieutenant reported...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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