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Instead, on a pleasantly cool Monday night in June, the soft-spoken 19-year- old, who grew up in the public-housing projects in Bridgeport, Conn., proudly marched into the local civic auditorium with 128 other green-and- white-robed members of the Bassick High School graduating class of 1991. He didn't sit on the podium with the class leaders, nor was he one of the nine students who wore a blue satin collar symbolizing membership in the National Honor Society. But for James, his family, his neighborhood and even for this country, the mere fact that...
...entry met a shocking rebuff. It is a lump-in-the-throat spot about Mike Sewell, a youth born with Down's syndrome, who found a job and happiness at McDonald's. The crowd in the giant auditorium at Cannes greeted it with raucous boos and whistles. "This is the most vicious, cynical, jaded audience in the world," said Marcio Moreira, creative director of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. "They don't like to have their emotions manipulated...
When Apple unveiled the revolutionary Macintosh in 1984, the rivalry with IBM reached full boil. Taking on Big Blue had become an obsession for the Silicon Valley boys, who called themselves "Bluebusters." Jobs launched Macintosh with an evangelistic zeal, exhorting an auditorium packed with dealers, customers and employees, "IBM wants it all and is aiming its guns on its last obstacle to industry control, Apple. Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry . . .? Was George Orwell right?" As the frenzied crowd shouted a chorus of "No!," Jobs cued a now notorious TV commercial known as "1984," which...
...began badly. On a balmy June Thursday, eminences from the world of advertising arrived at a Manhattan auditorium for the first round of 1991's Clio Awards, the industry's high-profile, hotly pursued "Oscars." But Clio's tuxedoed officials were oddly absent, as were the tickets that some attendees had paid...
Free Observatory Night at the Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden...