Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearing he convened on the plant's evacuation procedure, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) led an attack against NRC officials in a packed Amesbury High School auditorium. Amesbury is one of six Massachusetts communities within a 10-mile radius of the idle New Hampshire power plant...
...protesters staged a rally outside the school's Law School Auditorium as President John R. Silber presented Chief Mangosuthu Garsha Buthelezi with an honorary doctor of laws in an invitation-only convocation...
Applause, though forbidden by moderator MaryRichardson, rose periodically from both factionsin the audience, but generally favored Dukakis,except for a voluble Kariotis contingent on theright of the auditorium...
...been under constant threat. Apparently its angry art -- including a dead-on description of fire and bloodshed in a township attack -- too closely shadows life. One night, at a performance outside Durban, two busloads of counterrevolutionary blacks, armed with guns, spears and bush knives, drove up to the auditorium. They were looking for Ngema. The playwright was not in attendance, he recalls, "and the actors escaped death by inches, while the audience fled into the streets." The promoter of the company, says Ngema, was hacked to death...
Tear gas too. On opening night, just as the dancers were starting a coy mating dance called Summer, the sellout audience at the Metropolitan Opera House was routed by a cloud of noxious gas that emptied the 4,000-seat auditorium and forced cancellation of the performance. (The radical Jewish Defense League at first claimed and then denied responsibility.) Next evening, amid beefed-up security, the show went off without a hitch...