Word: booing
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...them was a far cry from lecture. Apollo Night, hosted by the Black Students Association (BSA), is a nod to the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, where audience members take control of the show during amateur nights. The crowd’s reaction dictates all—offending acts are booed off-stage, and the winner is voted in by enthusiastic cheers. The show’s acts varied in genre as well as skill, including dance performances, a vocalist, a spoken-word artist, a guitarist, and—of course—several requisite references to Soulja Boy. Rejection wasn?...
...would draw that kind of reaction from my classmates. And it wasn’t just class pride: during the Crimson Key Society’s screening of “Love Story,” the sight of Weld Hall drew cheers from a few and boos from the rest. The mere mention of the word “Canaday” was enough to send a section of any freshman gathering into a frenzy, and the only time you’ll hear Harvard students boo Yale like the class of 2011 did this week is during...
...Hollywood figures it, the upside is worth the gamble. Toronto, unlike Cannes or Venice, is really a people's festival; the movie equivalent of those Wal-Mart warriors pay real money to see these pictures. They may boo films but more often cheer them on, stoking a producer's dreams of big revenues and little statuettes. The studios count on Toronto audiences (and the thousand or so critics who come from the lower 48) to ignite the word-of-mouth that can keep a movie hot through February. Heat shouldn't be a problem at TIFF this year. The temperature...
...sometimes the city feels different. On the subway, a mother plays peek-a-boo with her young daughter. I smile at her older son, and he smiles back. It is the first time I have met the eyes of another person on the subway for a long time. The mother looks at me protectively, and I grin back. Her expression softens, and before she goes back to playing with her little one, her lips tense into a guarded hint of a smile...
...living in unit 9 of the upmarket apartment block in Southport, a coastal town an hour south of Brisbane, Australia, hardly matched the popular image of a terrorist sympathizer. "He didn't have a beard. He was quietly spoken. He didn't talk about anything. If you had said boo to him he would have fallen over," says Steve Bosher, manager of the building...