Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Madonna strode onstage, and 15,000 fans went bats. "It feels great to be in a house full of people who care," she told the Madison Square Garden crowd. "AIDS is a strange and powerful disease. But we're more powerful." Then Madonna, who lost her "best friend," Painter Martin Burgoyne, 24, to AIDS, rocked the Garden with old songs given pertinent twists. As she sang Papa Don't Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised...
...rock concert on the other side when armed police moved in. The youths took up a chant: "We want Gorbachev!" In effect, they were invoking his new thinking to mitigate the brutality of the old order. The tactic did not work. The police cracked heads and dispersed the crowd. The moment did not augur well, either, for the more free-spirited citizens of the Soviet bloc or for Gorbachev himself. It demonstrated that, too often, Soviet power still comes from the barrel of a gun or the business end of a truncheon...
...figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked a Wimbledon official primly: "It was the first time anything like that has happened." Once dubbed the Australian McEnroe for his on-court temper tantrums, Cash appears to have mellowed since his girlfriend Norwegian Model...
...joined in the two-mile march, including phalanxes of students carrying pictures of Lee on forests of poles, youths bearing red-black-and- yellow banners, and a group of funeral dancers, who gracefully spun to the sounds of drums and cymbals. After reaching the city hall, the crowd sang patriotic songs, and a hearse departed for Kwangju, Lee's hometown 200 miles away...
Many of the mourners soon dispersed, but some 40,000 continued to occupy the city hall plaza. Then, goaded by a far-left student faction, the crowd began marching up Taepyongno Street in the direction of the Blue House, the official residence of South Korea's President. The route was blocked off by riot police, who until then had remained out of sight. Within minutes the confrontation erupted into full-scale combat that lasted about two hours. Police fired pepper gas from five "black elephants," truck-mounted guns that spew out canisters at machine-gun speed. The protesters attacked police...