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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...
...notion may draw snickers from people subjected to the lurid lectures on the horrors of narcotics that generally passed for drug education in the '60s and '70s. "It only takes one kid in an auditorium who says, 'Hey, I know someone who did that drug and it didn't happen to him,' and your message is gone," says Richard Booze, assistant director of a Chicago-area training center for teachers. Many experts also doubt the effectiveness of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" effort. That drive, focused on children 7 to 14, has prompted the organization of 10,000 clubs...
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...
...seaside resort city of Rimini, 600,000 youths, sporting San Diego Chargers T shirts, designer jeans and plain work clothes, poured down Via della Fiera. Another tide of the summer fun-and-sun set heading for a beach party? Not quite. They were on their way to the ultramodern auditorium in the new fairgrounds for Mass and then perhaps to a seminar on human rights in Eastern Europe or a lecture by the Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, on God and the mass media. And if in the midst of all this high seriousness the kids seemed exuberantly...