Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With fears of a repeat of the scene at Shea Stadium last week (when victory-crazed Mets fans caused $250,000damage to the field), the Fenway crowd remainedgenerally well-behaved. Only about a dozenspectators raced onto the field, and they were allquickly apprehended by the security force...
Last week's crowd, which numbered nearly 2,500, was gathered for the Gerald R. Ford Museum's Humor and the Presidency Symposium in Grand Rapids, likened by Comedian Pat Paulsen to the "Ayatullah Khomeini Symposium on the Sexual Revolution." The convocation, which included a comedy show and a banquet, marks the fifth anniversary of the museum where the Ford Administration's documents are stored -- "in a Dixie cup," according to Paulsen. "It's very exciting here," he said, "if you happen to be a monk." Among those joining the three days of discussions and routines: Art Buchwald, Robert Klein...
...Harvard women's volleyball team defeated Columbia in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 90 spectators at the Malkin Athletic Center last night...
...real crowd-pleaser is Spike Lee himself as Mars Blackmon, the supersonic-mouthed, puny-limbed biker who 10-speeds directly into the camera at his first entrance. With big aviator frames, high tops, and an imposing, gold-plated "MARS" necklace, his mere presence inspires laughter. And his street-patter has proved to be contagious: Mars' stacatto delivery of "please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby-baby, please" is mimicked all over town. Some movie mavens have dubbed Lee the new Woody Allen and it's true--he saves all the best jokes for himself. But sweet, street-smart, and boastful...
...September 6 address before the crowd at Harvard's 350th birthday celebration, Secretary of State George P. Shultz pointed out the evils of isolationism, warning of "thoughtless escapism, a retreat from responsibility, an attempt to evade the reality of our dependence on the world and the world's dependence...