Word: clappings
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...arena is color of dress, color in competition. Nixon turns to his party, gesturing, pointing. Even Kissinger, way down to the left of the President, is looking intently and laughing. The audience is as disciplined as the performers; people clap almost in unison. The arena has a curious regimentation, to be sure, but color is a start. One wonders if there is not an elemental force, just as clear and sure as the day Thomas Jefferson wrote about it in the Declaration of Independence, for the U.S. And one wonders further if in the end it won't come...
...heavy side too. "Get Down," another cut, has a hard, driving rhythm that makes you want to get up and clap your hands and stomp your feet. When the band starts singing "you've got to get down, down, down," you feel compelled to join in and shout out a mighty "Get down brothers...
...Peter Pan she attended as a child (or was it a dream?), in which the alligator is real, and Wendy keeps getting fatter until she has to be helped around, and Tinkerbelle really dies, because the audience doesn't applaud loud enough when Peter Pan asks them to clap to show they believe in fairies. The play asks: is the fairy real? Does Jane believe in fairies? Should...
...barred the door to previously unfriendly viewers. Among the uninvited were Syndicated Columnist Eugenia Sheppard and various disgruntled experts from France's influential Le Monde and a leftist daily called Combat. Said the latter: "It's their fascist side. One must close one's eyes and clap, or else be punished. In general, poor sports are unsure of their talents...
...other and more significant force is a new style of sensitivity or perhaps paranoia. It is best articulated by Comedian Flip Wilson. In his familiar television routine, a dialogue is going famously, fairly humming with jolly good will. Then the other party touches Flip-a friendly clap on the shoulder, a matey hand on the sleeve. Wilson recoils like a Prussian who has been slapped. An expression of non-negotiable hostility does a slow freeze across his face. In a rising falsetto he cries: "Don't touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Wilson is not just...