Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, the rule was not meant to apply to John Wayne, who was called on for an "inspirational reading" rather than a run-of-the-mill invocation. Demonstrations for candidates were also cur tailed. When Lincoln was nominated in 1860, such a din rocked Chicago's Wigwam auditorium that, as one witness observed, "a thousand steam whistles, ten acres of hotel gongs, a tribe of Comanches might have mingled in the scene unnoticed." Miami Beach will be different. This time candidates were limited?in theory at least?to 20-minute outbursts in their behalf with no more than...
Everyone knew in the vast hall of the Rhode Island Auditorium that the Who often end with such a gory finale and that the signal for it to begin is the song "My Generation". There was a mad rush to the front of the room, everyone standing. After the interminable excitement of waiting for it, the flash of recognition as Daltrey begins the proceedings by tearing at the microphone wire till it snaps. Townshend starts pounding the floor with his guitar--plays a little on it--then crashes it into the nearest amplifier again and again hitting the sides...
...newsmakers. Recently, we started a new program of inviting some of these newsmakers to address the entire staff of the magazine. So far this year, our guests have included New York City's mayor, John Lindsay, and Comedian-Politician Dick Gregory. Last week TIME'S 300-seat auditorium had an S.R.O. crowd for William F. Buckley Jr., witty archconservationist of conservatism...
There is of course, no logical reason for this abrupt turnabout. The winter facilities are inadequate, but most coaches agree that the quality of the auditorium does not transform the chump into a champion. All the spring teams got their share of breaks, but in most cases, they made their breaks...
Whatever the explanation, it was clear that sex played no part in the judges' considerations. They sat on the stage of Lisner Auditorium behind screen partitions; the performers were identified for them only by number. Clearly, as Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume said, it took the Goldbergs to separate the women from...