----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5659
> Daniel Davies wrote:
>
> >Oh Christ. Chuck, mate, what I was hoping to see here was an
outright,
> >outraged denial that anyone you knew ever "twinkled". If
anything like the
> >hand gestures described above actually take place, this
movement is never
> >going to be taken seriously. In the name of sanity, stop the
twinkling.
>
> Tony Mazzocchi, the 70-something founder of the Labor Party,
spoke at
> a green gathering last year, and there was much twinkling in
response
> to his speech. Afterwards, Mazzocchi asked, "What the fuck
were those
> kids doing with their hands in the air?" To which there's no
good
> answer, really. Is applause perceived as violent? Do greens
aspire to
> resemble trees in a gentle breeze?
>
> Doug
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NSM's mean new body languages; it's innocuous stuff imported from rave culture as far as I can tell. Are meetings supposed to be kinesthetically moribund?
Ian