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claqueGroup of people hired to clap (French, claquer) and show approval in order to influence a theatre audience. The claque dates from ancient times. Comedy competitions in Athens were often won by contestants who infiltrated audiences with paid supporters. The practice was widespread in Rome, where the emperor Nero established a school of applause. In 19th-century France most theatres had specialized claques: rieurs laughed loudly at comedies, pleureuses wept at melodramas, and bisseurs shouted for encores. The practice persists today in the operatic world. claque Theatre a group of people hired to applaud How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They published newsletters, organized claques, insulted rivals, followed their favorite across oceans, snuck illegal tape recorders into performances, and, if lucky, were granted a backstage audience or the privilege of accompanying her to dinner after the show. The second blast comes with the televised award ceremony - a hurried, faintly glitzy dinner at the Tate with drunken claques for the artists, nervous dealers, and supercilious critics among the kiss-kiss crowd. All this while anti-violence claques kept insisting it was motion picture mayhem that threatened to desensitize and entire nation. |
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