Word: thumpings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience claps itself into a frenzy as Sergeant Sacrifice, played by Dean Gregory, comes to life, an American commando rigged up in military gear and black spandex pants. He struts and dances to the insistent thump of the disco hit "It's Raining Men" and strips down to a lame jockstrap Buttocks shaking, hips gyrating, Sergeant Sacrifice thrusts his pelvis into people's faces, makes women in the audience kiss him. Gay or straight, the audience seems enraptured by this naked maniac. He is generic sexual energy, writhing through the theater. The theatrical connection is made as never before...
Those who have heard the bellow and thump of the sawdust trail could recognize such artistry in Reagan's talk. It began with a St.-Peter-in-heaven joke (Reminds me of the story about the politician and the evangelical minister arriving together at heaven's gate) and then unfurled the flag: "Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted. Well, I am pleased to be here today with you who are keeping America great by keeping her good...
...neighborhood salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump of disco rhythms. A troupe from the Comédie Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place de la Bastille, a new ballet school for Marseille and a dance conservatory for Lyon. And, seemingly...
...this will be a full-fledged set, a "Rock-'n'-Roll Christmas Concert." Cornelia even has a crib sheet written out in pencil and propped up near the microphone in case she forgets how to sing her rock rendition of Frosty the Snowman: "Thumpety thump-thump, thum-pety thump-thump, there goes Frosty...
...large water-colors of wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi, a Harvard alumnus, would thump on the piano whenever the Fiihrer was in a frisky mood. After the war, whenever Putzi was asked what Hitler was like, he never failed to marvel how that man could whistle...