Word: clappings
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...There’s a lot of people, not necessarily at Harvard, who have a very narrow-minded view, who think that if people don’t know that you’re not supposed to clap between movements then they shouldn’t go to concerts,” Balliett says. “I think that’s ridiculous. You have to ask them, why are you performing? Are you just playing for each other? You could do that in your dorm room—you don’t need to rent Sanders Theater...
...could smell the malt on billboards. So, next to bartending or wine testing, he could hardly have found a less temperate location than Busch Stadium for tempering his character. Throughout every game in St. Louis, the organist plays relentless beer jingles to which the spectators have been conditioned to clap in cadence. If Missouri is not the perfect place for tapering off at the World Series, it is certainly an ideal spot for the family of baseball to drink to its rehabilitation. --By Tom Callahan
...open trading. Before bargaining begins, the buyer sniffs the cheese, bashes it with his hand to ensure the holes are the right size, and plunges a borer into it to taste the merchandise. If he decides to bid, he shouts out a price, which he accompanies with a hand clap; a stern clap at the end of the bidding seals the deal. Cheese porters, above, who have been hauling 160-kg barrows of sold cheese into the weigh house since the market began, are an equally big attraction. The men still belong to four old guilds; each guild is represented...
...soldiers sing. It is a song about the day "Uncle Ho" declared their country's independence in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square. I hear these words: "All men are created equal. They are given certain rights; among these are life, liberty and happiness." I begin to cry and clap. These young men should not be our enemy. They celebrate the same words Americans do. The song ends with a refrain about the soldiers vowing to keep the "blue skies above Ba Dinh" free from bombers...
...player, you can jerk the phone to the right to skip to the next track. Best of all, the phone's "beat box" function lets you build grooves by shaking the phone, air-drum style. Each time you play, you can pick a different sound such as tambourine, clap or scratch, and you can save your most excellent beats to impress friends later on. The SCH-S310 is scheduled to go on sale in South Korea later this year, but if applications for the technology develop, it's likely that motion sensing will show up in Samsung's U.S. phones...