Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What librarians described as "a medium-sized crowd" of students, faculty, staff members and tourists wandered through the building's reading rooms and 10 floors of stacks yesterday afternoon...
...Hilton ballroom is sold out, and Cosby, after starting slowly, leaves the crowd howling at his routine on trifocal eyeglasses. In his spacious dressing room between shows, he wolfs rigatoni puttanesca and taps his toe to a jazz tape by Slim Gaillard while entertaining a stream of callers. A casino manager from Reno has flown in with a wholesale price book for sterling flatware; Cosby wants 70 place settings, and he wants a better price than the $98,000 he was quoted retail. He takes a call from a wine merchant about some cases of Chateau Petrus, but tells...
Next stop, Ruston. Sam was once president of the First National Bank here. He knew the crowd. The candidate, perspiring so you could see through his shirt, was comparing Louisiana to the train: "Rich in history, rich in heritage, not as shiny as it used to be, but able to get back on track." An elderly man of the soil sidled over to us and inquired, "Do you think he believes all that horse manure?" Back on the train, even the tap water came out smoking...
Caddell fashioned a campaign that presumably would appeal to "The Big Chill" crowd. The idea was to invoke the spirit of J.F.K.'s "New Frontier" and the "commitment" of the '60s. Biden didn't have the fire in the belly in '84, and Caddell brought his master plan to Gary Hart. After that election he updated the script for 1988 and got the leading man he'd wanted all along...
...largest and most lavish extravaganza ever held by a single computer manufacturer, and not even all the hotels in the Hub could accommodate the 50,000 executives, financial analysts and journalists from 25 countries who are expected to attend the $25 million, eleven-day affair. To house the overflow crowd, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Star/Ship Oceanic luxury liners were docked alongside the spacious World Trade Center on Boston Harbor, where DEC put up a raft of electronic exhibits and unveiled a new line of machines in the midsize or "minicomputer" class...