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The relatively long and often colorful selections in this anthology enable the reader to become genuinely absorbed in what is said, whether he responds with anger or applause.
Starr later said, " In Glasgow, we were all backstage listening to the tremendous applause he was getting.
After much applause following the first and second acts, Wagner spoke to the audience and said that the cast would take no curtain calls until the end of the performance.
In any case, his efforts at making a living as a pianist (" I finally heard some applause from a bald man and said ' thank you for clapping me ' and he said ' I'm not clapping-I'm slapping me head to keep awake '"), evolved into comedy as he found he got laughs by playing wrong notes and complaining to the audience.
Maffei said that " some professionals have not given this invention all the applause it merits ," and goes on to say that its sound was felt to be too " soft " and " dull "-- Cristofori was unable to make his instrument as loud as the competing harpsichord.
" " Wallace angrily shouted to a crowd of 1000 that ' little pinkos ' were ' running around outside ' protesting his visit, and continued, after thunderous applause, Wallace said, " When you and I start marching and demonstrating and carrying signs, we will close every highway in the country.
According to one account, the audience broke into spontaneous applause at the coming of " light " and " Papa " Haydn, in a typical gesture weakly pointed upwards and said: " Not from me — everything comes from up there!
A review said “ A musical program of entertainment was rendered in the church, each number of which received hearty applause.
At the 1999 Academy Awards ceremony, after its In Memoriam montage of deceased stars and film contributors ( which did not include Siskel as he was not an Academy member ), host Whoopi Goldberg gave a brief, impromptu tribute to Siskel in which she said: " Gene, honey, wherever you are, here's to you " and then included the traditional " thumbs-up " gesture, to great audience applause.
" According to Paul, " She received huge applause when she asked how former United States President Jimmy Carter could omit the years 1939-1947 from a chronology in his book "; referring to his recently-published and controversial book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, she said: " When a former president of the United States writes a book on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis and writes a chronology at the beginning of the book in order to help them understand the emergence of the situation and in that chronology lists nothing of importance between 1939 and 1947, that is soft-core denial.
There was no applause when the executioner held Garnet's heart aloft and said the traditional words, " Behold the heart of a traitor ".
Reviews were mixed-Variety said it " inspires warm applause rather than cheer "— and Berlin wrote two new songs to bolster the sagging second act.
Sir HENRY PARKES, who was received with applause, said, in reply …
" Paar reappeared on March 7, 1960, strolled on stage, struck a pose, and said, " As I was saying before I was interrupted ..." After the audience erupted in applause, Paar continued, " When I walked off, I said there must be a better way of making a living.
‘ And at the Third Food Conference in Delhi on the 5th to the 8th July,the suggestion thatthe only reason why people are starving in Bengal is that there is hoarding ” was greeted at the Conference by the other Provinces with applause .’ Similarly, some officials in the Government of India refused to accept the evidence on the ground, preferring their own idiosyncratic interpretations of the market: as late as November 1943,The Government of India would admit no intrinsic shortage in Bengal in the Spring of 1943 and, even in November, at the height of the famine, the Director-General of Food in the Council of State said thatthe major trouble in Bengal has been not so much an intrinsic shortage of essential foodgrains as a breakdown of public confidence .’ On 19 October 1943, when the famine was at its peak, Wavell noted in his journal “ On the food situation Linlithgow outgoing Viceroy says chief factor morale. panic hoarding ” For hoarding to have created the amount of hunger and death recorded if there had, indeed, been adequate supplies, it would have been necessary that the richest 10 % of Bengal's population, the only ones who could afford it, to lay in two years ' rice supply for themselves, in addition to the stocks accumulated in the previous two years, and to keep it in stock until the end of the war, while their neighbours starved.
The only applause was reserved for the Italian President Sandro Pertini, who arrived by helicopter in Bologna at 17. 30 on the day of the massacre, and said in tears in front of reporters: " I have no words, we are facing the most criminal enterprise that has ever taken place in Italy.

applause and Veterans
Kerry was the only representative of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ( VVAW ) who testified on April 22, but others in VVAW were in the audience and at times supported his remarks with applause.

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According to Lucian, Herodotus took his finished work straight from Asia Minor to the Olympic Games and read the entire Histories to the assembled spectators in one sitting, receiving rapturous applause at the end of it.
According to sportswriter Ed Fitzgerald in SPORT magazine, "< nowiki ></ nowiki > omen wept unashamed and the entire courtroom burst into spontaneous, prolonged applause.
However, in an act of defiance, the man looks up into the audience ( after having been looking down the entire time ); theapplause falters and dies .” A Pyrrhic victory perhaps.
According to Steven Adler's autobiography, My Appetite For Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N ' Roses, the entire EP was recorded at Pasha Studios in Hollywood with pre-recorded audience applause and cheering in the background, as Geffen's engineers told him " it would cost too much to actually record a live record ".
Indiscriminate applause is widely considered a violation of classical music concert etiquette: Applause is discouraged between movements, reserved instead for the end of the entire work.
Musa abided to the Agong's demand and boldly came forward to make the apology, which was greeted by a thunderous applause from the entire congregation.
There was a minute of applause before the game and the entire Celtic squad wore the number 7 on their shorts in his honour.
Thus the entire ensemble receives applause at the beginning and the concertmaster's role is less individual.

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Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.
Friz Freleng used the Jones idea for Daffy in " Show Biz Bugs " ( 1957 ) wherein Daffy's " trained " pigeon act ( they all fly away as soon as Daffy opens their cage ) and complicated tap dance number are answered by nothing but crickets chirping in the audience, whereas Bugs's simple song-and-dance numbers bring wild applause.
She employs a food / feasting metaphor and states that her poems are not ripe, but that applause and praise will make them pass as a ‘ general feast ’ to those of vulgar taste who take quantity over quality.
His co-workers are touched by his honesty and greet him with applause, but the management sends Bob Sugar ( Jay Mohr ), Maguire's protégé, to fire him.
Those measures do not appear in vocal scores, and modern performances usually delete them, bringing the duet to a full close so that the opening bars of the finale are not covered by applause.
The " surviving " performers are voted on by the audience, with the one receiving the most applause winning a prize or some cash.
" Bush's words are frequently interrupted by strong applause.
Laughter and applause are often sweetened and edited prior to public viewing, or if aired live, are done on the spot via a 7-second delay.
Wando and her children are escorted out of the mine followed by applause from the rescue team for their survival.
A golf clap is a form of quiet clapping, so-named because it is the preferred form of applause for golfers ; louder forms of applause are discouraged at golf tournaments so as not to disturb other golfers, who may be in the process of attempting a shot.
Maggie, Cappie, and Rina are all there, too, leading the applause as Lucas raises his arms triumphantly and smiles.
His works, which were planned on an imposing scale, attracted some temporary attention and applause, but are now forgotten.
As the performance ends, Gloria and Tony are revealed onstage along with the now-dead bodies of Jackson and the guard, but the Pope, who seems not to have noticed anything unusual, leads the audience in applause for the cast, the orchestra, and the conductor-Stanley Tibbets ( Dudley Moore ).
Matthews took Miller to task for his statement that soldiers, not reporters, are responsible for freedom of the press, accusing the Senator of making the comment only " to get an applause line against the media at a conservative convention.
* It contains very few audience shots ( and applause sounds are much less audible than usual ) until the very end, during the performance of " Crosseyed and Painless.
: Over the applause, Hilda and Evadne are presented with gifts of appreciation by the organisers.
In his concerts in the 2000s, Bennett typically performs the song mid-way through his set, after which the house lights are turned up while the audience engages in extended applause.
The objects are chosen by the audience's applause.

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