Word: clappings
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...fact that you can't cuddle up to art," says he, "I get from it very much the same sort of joy that I get out of friendship with a beautiful girl." Rose feels that he is performing a noble divorce. Says he, "In this clip-clap, ragtag life, this is the most heart-warming thing I have ever done...
...courtier in Jack's Administration, "has to be first all the time." That goes for everything, from a pickup game of touch football to managing his brother's presidential race. When he played touch football, his daughter Kathleen, now 13, would occasionally show up with her friends to cheer: Clap your hands and stamp your feet 'Cause Daddy's team, Daddy's team, can't be beat...
...past few weeks campaigning has become a labor of love for the diminutive ex-Governor. After three hours of glad-handing, Volpe may announce disgustedly that "you have to be crazy to do this stuff." But he doesn't mean it. Recovering in a few moments, he will clap his hands, tug on his nose, and demand impatiently, "What's next? Come on, come...
...Jeffrey Liebman of Evanston, Ill. got a four-minute standing ovation when the President's telegram was read to a student assembly. He heard not a clap of it, having been deaf since birth. He attends Evanston's college-sized Township High, reads lips so fluently that some classmates are unaware of his deafness. Hugely versatile, Jeffrey was a state winner in the Science Talent Search for his experiment on fast evaporation, won a Carnegie Tech creative-writing prize for an essay on Salinger and Kafka, a national prize for a one-act play, and a letter...
...recent trip to Atlanta, Goldwater stepped from his plane, strode wordlessly through a cheering crowd. A radio reporter popped up with a microphone, asked: "How was the trip, Senator?" Goldwater just scowled. An admiring girl tried to clap a big white hat on his head. Goldwater shoved it away, snapping: "I don't want that." The radio reporter tried again. Goldwater spoke a few words, but the reporter wanted more. Goldwater pushed the mike away and growled: "Get that damn thing out of here...