Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bright early enough, you can watch the teams warm up. The big guns, the show-offs on each team, smash hard shots at the goalie and then turn to face the small, early-arriving crowd. Smiling...
...band--a noisy bunch in Crimson jackets--plays the national anthem, the players stand at attention, facing the flag, the crowd stands, you stand. When it is over the crowd cheers, you cheer. The centers square off at center ice, the puck is dropped, and the crowd roars again...
Forward Lane MacDonald, the least heralded member of last year's potent Firing Line, is steady and smooth. He skates slickly past opposing defensemen, ripping shots from all angles. Sometimes the shots soar past the bemused goalie and into the net. Sometimes the crowd--and his coach--don't know how he does...
...crowd, too, has a personality. It is noisy and mean. It delights in opposing teams' mishaps and scorns all opposing goalies...
Theater has always been primarily a popular entertainment, and always will be. Most plays throughout history, including Shakespeare's, were written to please the crowd. But, like the horse cart and the zeppelin, theater has suffered recently from competition. Television can take us places the theater can only imitate with painted drops, while the cinema can beat the theater in almost every area...