Word: clappings
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...Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
...They Know. Milwaukee club officials no longer worry about spectator reaction. Said one: "At first they didn't know whether they should shout, or just clap politely, or boo or what. Now they know." They have yet to toss beer bottles (Schlitz is sold during games), but as the home team was getting trimmed (12-6) by the Boca Raton (Fla.) Royal Palms, when Captain Uihlein overrode the ball, one grandstand customer bellowed: "You bum! I don't care if this is your backyard! Why don't you take your bats and balls and go home...
...husbands, nightclub owners, food and the British press. He knows also that Judy has sung Over the Rainbow over and over since she was 17, and that she will sing it again, sure as there is ooze in Oz. Worst of all, there will be the Garland believers who clap wildly and weep like new widows at anything Judy does onstage...
Their own catching, lilting, hand-clap rhythm has helped establish the Grandisons as the freshest gospel-singing group in the land. And despite their switch from churches to liquor-serving clubs, the girls have no regrets. Says Mary Grandison: People in the nightclubs accept the music more than people in the churches. It's more quiet here. It's almost reverent...
...Alchemist must be made largely through its pacing. The moral plague which settles over Lovewit's London house must come with lightning speed as Subtle and Face deceive victim after victim; and at the end of the play the victims must converge on the house in a thunder clap of righteous indignation. The audience should be allowed to catch its breath only in the final moments, when Face miraculously stands triumphant after his final deceit. If Mirsky speeds the action and limits the number of actors who lasciviously roll their tongues around their lips and ostentatiously finger their crotches...