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Although many students lined the windows to clap and cheer, not everyone enjoyed the flash dance. At 1:29 a.m, the Harvard Police received a complaint about "nudists singing the National Anthem," one policeman said. The approaching patrol car sent the singing group running for cover. By the time the police arrived, the policeman said, there was nobody--no bare body, that is--in sight...

Author: By Ronie-richele Garcia, | Title: Moonlighting in the Quad | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

...staff sings For He's a Jolly Good Fellow to Steven and Marie and Owen. The children don't exactly sing, but at the end of the song they put their hands high in the air: "Yayyyyyy!!!" ((clap, clap, clap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Day Care with a Lot of Caring | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Ackroyd sometimes overstates his satire of scholarship and art -- Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet As a Young Corpse CHATTERTON | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...course, Mother Ginger with her many toddlers sheltered under the breadth of her skirt. The under-two-feeters ran around the playgroundstage and paused to dance. Clap, turn backs to one another, and bump. Clap and bump...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Visions of Sugarplums | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

...happy and you know it, clap your hands," sang the visitors on the tour bus. After a meal at the Heavenly Fudge Shoppe and a run down the kamikaze water slide in the Heritage Island water park, I too was in a good mood. I had spent the morning communing with the spirit of Tammy Faye, and I was inspired to heed her message. Shop...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Plastic Armor of God | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

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