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...seemed startled when Bill Plante of CBS suggested otherwise: "Mr. President, in your exchange with the editors-I happen to have the transcript-I'd like to read what you said." That was not Reagan's only uncomfortable moment. A press corps professionally conditioned never to clap or boo gave way to spontaneous laughter when Reagan asserted: "There is no animus, personal animus, and there is no bickering or backstabbing going on. We're a very happy group...
...main technical difficulty seems to be a tendency, after inventing an effective device, to continue using it until it has beaten the audience insensible. In the first courtroom scene, Polonius, at a signal from the King, begins to thump his stick on the floor. At each impact the courtiers clap in unison; gradually, the chamberlain accelerates his pounding till the room rings with hearty applause. All well and good; but, having established the procedures. Cain has Polonius repeat the gesture six of seven times before the scene closes, and at least four more times by the end of the play...
...blocks away, where the six men were being held. While their supporters rallied outside the courthouse, the men spent part of their time doing sit-ups and leg lifts, and when the jury announced convictions on all counts, they took a break from a card game to laugh and clap. In a similar room sat the four women, reading, napping or just listening in. After each witness had finished, marshals asked the two groups if they wished to cross-examine. The responses invariably ranged from silence to "no" and were walkie-talkied back to another marshal at the courthouse...
Shirley Bassey, 43, singer, on performing in Monte Carlo: "The audiences there clap too slowly because they are so loaded down with jewelry, and they're always checking to see if Princess Grace or Prince Rainier are clapping first. By the time they've done that, I'm into my next song...
...four mop-topped lads from Liverpool strode triumphantly onto the stage of London's Prince of Wales Theater before an audience of upper-crust fans that included the Queen Mother herself. As TIME quoted the group's lanky, irreverent leader: "Those of you in the cheaper seats, clap. The rest of you, rattle your jewelry." With that remark, John Lennon made his first appearance in the pages of TIME. As the years went by, Lennon and his fellow Beatles have turned up countless times in the magazine-and in the lives of a fortunate handful of its writers...