Word: claps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interesting: She's only been here for a year, only vaulting for three. Maybe she thought she was still a Russian, because she barely noticed that the crowd was going crazy for her. Then she had this Sally Fields moment - they like me! - and started asking them to clap harder before she vaulted. Oof, they lifted her over 5.60m, higher than she's ever gone. So now our Stacy, the world champ, had to clear 5.65. She did, on her first try, and won the first ever women's pole vault gold. "I'm a clean athlete...
Gathered around the floodlit enclosure at midnight, they sing that he will make peace: ya'ase shalom. The words refer to God, but as 300 worshippers thump tambourines and clap their hands in the warm night, they have someone else in mind. It is the rabbi. He shuffles through the crowd, small and bowed. They touch him for his blessing. He is a tzaddik, a holy man, a saint. "I will clean the people," he mutters. His arm winging like a metronome, Rabbi Yaakov Ifargan slings candles into a brazier until the flame rises 20 ft. and wax sizzles onto...
...wrote for the Coasters, such as Charlie Brown and Love Potion No. 9. Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...
...mathematician's ears, there is something else going on. Typically, after a few seconds of chaotic clapping, an audience will slip into synchronized applause, like two people adjusting their strides until they walk in step. But just as walkers will reassert their natural gait, a clap-happy audience will fall in and out of synch repeatedly. According to a study of ovations in Romania and Hungary, this back-and-forthing is due to conflicting needs: the wish to make the most possible noise (random clapping) vs. the urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other...
...main aspects of community is support. We are not a community if all we do is lend an appreciative ear to traditional songs or clap after cultural performances. We need to support each other in times of need, we need to support our extended communities and show that we are not a conglomerate of separate communities, but a consolidated community that will not be divided...