| We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces. |
| The Mayor is so often booed at public events that he has taken to expressing gratification when the applauders outnumber the booers. |
| There seems to be confusion between the applauders and the applauded: Brezhnev tries signalling to the crowd, joining the crowd, sitting, standing, smiling all for naught. |
| Wealthy poets hired actors to deliver their lines and professional applauders to erupt into praise at key moments. |
