Word: auditorium
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...Expect the unexpected," Principal Winston Davis warned the 700 students in Knoxville's Fulton High School auditorium last week. As the assembly settled into an eye-glazing film on the high school's construction, six warriors in camouflage gear suddenly mounted a platform near the stage and began firing their M-16s. The youngsters screamed and scrambled for cover. But the gunplay ended almost immediately, and Sergeant Major Bob Gregory of the Tennessee Army National Guard informed the students that the soldiers were shooting blanks. "This was just a scenario," said he. "It's not for real...
...nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks in an underheated school auditorium; a family bickering over dinner about the squatters camping out on their farmland...
...passengers sat and waited in a large auditorium for their room assignments, the officials asked if couples would like to share a double room. Several "yes" answers were greeted with a few snickers. When a group of middle-aged nuns asked if they could remain together, the passengers in the back of the auditorium laughed, and one made a rude comment...
...Brown the hockey team ain't that inspiring, either. Last night, under the deadly dull dome of Meehan Auditorium, the Harvard men's hockey team stumbled its way to a 3-2 victory over the Bruins...
Crimson, 3-2 at Meehan Auditorium Harvard (9-0 overall, 9-0 ECAC) 2-1-0--3 Brown (4-6 overall, 2-5 ECAC...