Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Roscoe Brown Jr., president of Bronx Community College, an example of the "institutional racism that permeates this city, in business and in government." When some 2,000 black and white civil rights advocates marched in Howard Beach on Saturday, they were jeered at with obscenities by a large crowd of young whites from the community...
...have expressed frustration at the slowness of such political reforms. But their demands frequently seemed to reflect a breezy assumption that Western-style democracy could be grafted painlessly onto Deng's bold economic experiment. Indeed, foreign reporters covering the demonstrations in Shanghai were sometimes cheered and applauded by the crowd. Said one student: "We simply want to have the freedom to do what we want." A medical student said his idea of democracy was "freedom of expression, freedom of the press, publication and association." At one confrontation between Shanghai students and the city's reform-oriented mayor, Jiang Zemin...
...Tosca, for which Rome was rebuilt, two seasons ago -- also have marooned their casts in movie sets. Presto: singing pygmies. Now comes this extravagant Fledermaus with singers who become a backup chorus to the brocade and the woodwork. Rosalinde (Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa) gets lost in the crowd during Orlofsky's drinking party in Act II, and the vengeful Dr. Falke (Baritone Michael Devlin) blends nicely with the patterned wallpaper and the potted ferns...
...prompted by the death of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Ramadan Zeitun, who was shot last week during disturbances at the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus. At first it was assumed that the boy had died after Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of rioters. Later it appeared that he may have been shot by a carful of local Israeli settlers. Either way, his death symbolizes the confusion and chaos that beset the West Bank as it undergoes the worst round of violence there since the spring...
Eventually the crowd began chanting and some students tried forcibly to enter the meeting room...