Word: clappings
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...vacation," droned a Bronx-plated voice from the darkened auditorium. "You are in your hotel room, reading. Then, when I clap my hands, you will see lights on the beach. When I clap a second time, you will hear noises. And when I clap a third time, you will hear screams. O.K., you're on your own. Have a good time...
Raising his audience to the sought-for pitch, Carmichael claimed that the police had everybody marked and were ready to shoot. He asked his listeners not to clap for applause because that would only let off steam. "That's our trouble," he said. "We've been letting off steam when we should have slapped some heads." Rocks and bottles were soon whizzing through the air, windows of police squad cars were shattered, and eight persons were arrested. Carmichael, by this time, was dancing the boogaloo at a downtown nightclub...
Fine Retriever. At the same time, he has the intelligent man's impatience with much of the clap-trappings of war. "I notice that when we get on both sides of an enemy," he wryly notes, "that enemy is described as 'surrounded,' but when the enemy get on both sides of us, we are told that we have driven a 'wedge' between his two armies." When Hitler invades Norway, "the House is extremely calm and the general line is that Hitler has made a terrible mistake. I feel myself that I wish that we could...
...young musicians he has influenced have not imitated him but have gone their own way, forging new electronic, mathematic or aleatory (chance) musical techniques. His own ideal is still "to rejoin the eternal durations and resonances, to apprehend the inaudible which is above music." Meantime, he is content to clap on his beret, pack up his music paper, and drive off for some bird watching...
...luxurious woman, and what he wanted he got." First he got Jackie Kennedy by dedicating five evening gowns to her in 1961. She remains his most constant client, last year bought her pants suit from his collection. She often writes him long, glowing letters, has even been known to clap her hands, crying "Valentino, live to be 100!" while picking out a dress...