Word: clappings
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Only moments before, a man who looked like Ford had preceded him out of the door. "Some people began to clap," Moore recalled. "I pulled my gun halfway out of my purse, and then I realized it wasn't he." Shaking, she jammed the revolver back in her bag. No one had seen the hostile motion...
Self-interest. Brezhnev, however, accompanied his words with a hearty clap on Simon's back-and other Soviet officials have shown in more concrete ways that they will not allow their anger to stand in the way of their self-interest. Since January, they have been signing deals with U.S. companies, both well-known and obscure. Some samples: a $50 million order to Allis-Chalmers Corp. for an iron-ore pelletizing plant, a $47 million contract with Gould Inc. for a plant to produce heavy-duty engine bearings, a $21 million order for Caterpillar bulldozers and a $7 million...
...understands it very well, and it's even a little embarrassing. Mike Nichols's newest movie, a light-headed, stale farce called The Fortune, could have been born during just such a private all-nighter, at some point when Nichols, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson got so clap-happy that they filmed their ideas on the spot...
...blue-jeaned audience listens as Bessie Jones, a spirituals singer, talks about the songs her slave grandfather used to sing in the cotton fields in Virginia. As her vibrant, mellow voice lifts into song ("I'm going to lay down my life for my Lord"), the young people clap their hands in rhythm...
...what could be more American than a George and Ira Gershwin musical about upper-class bootlegging during Prohibition? Admittedly Oh, Kay! has a book co-authored by one of the enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version is directed by Loeb's Wunderkind Josh Rubins '70, author of the well-received musical Suffragette! At the Loeb tonight through Saturday and July...