Word: clappings
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...daily playercise," burbles Instructor Jackie Rubenstein, as she launches into a nursery-like rhyme: "Open, shut them, give a little clap, clap, clap, and put them in your lap, lap, lap . . ." On cue, 19 mothers seated in a circle on the floor grasp the wrists of the toddlers before them and dutifully push and pull tiny arms and hands. Rubenstein changes her tune, tykes are settled on their backs, and mothers pedal little limbs bicycle- style. Then to a third ditty, with youngsters in their laps, mothers inch their hips forward to the center of the ring where they lift...
South Africa, 1958. Red dust, low green hills. A bride and groom make their way through a crowd of swaying villagers who clap and chant a ritual wedding song. Tribesmen draped in striped blankets beat the rhythm on painted drums. After the marriage feast, the couple walk in the countryside. She gathers the train of her bridal dress with one hand; the other is intertwined in his. "If only we didn't have to go back," he says. She looks up, all fresh anticipation. "I wonder what our life will be like?" she asks. Then: "I know one thing. Life...
...Sundays the older children were expected to make a speech about a personality in the news." Now the eldest children of Robert Kennedy are hoping to bring that ingrained interest in public matters to Washington. The upcoming primaries will be a test of their old family football cheer: "Clap your hands! Stamp your feet! 'Cause Daddy's team can't be beat...
...initiative and imagination of the wearer. "It may sound a bit harsh," says Yohji Yamamoto, "but Europe's snobbishness is equal to America's conservatism. To people living in a conservative world, new fashions, new trends and new designs are like something you see in the theater: you clap, but you never live what...
Time and again Ronis mixes the old and the new, the expected and the unexpected. For example, the duels, which in many productions are played with phony rapiers, are here done by arming each actor with a pair of hard-wood blocks. They clap these blocks together without hitting each other, creating a rhythmic swordfight that is near deafening in the acoustically alive theater...