Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under a warm sun, the crowd applauded and waved flags from around the world at the end of the service...
Police, freed by the wall from some of their previous crowd-control duties, have enforced liquor laws by making more than 1,500 arrests in the beach area over the past four weeks, vs. 889 during all six weeks of the 1985 break. But merchants do not want Lauderdale to get too quiet: last year the college crowd pumped $120 million into their tills...
Even so, the Cardinal can still celebrate Mass with little obstruction, and the Roman Catholic Church continues to draw a far more sizable crowd than the People's Church, the officially sanctioned church, which fails to attract a large segment of the population and even alienates some ardent Sandinistas. "We will not provoke. We plan to continue our work," says Father Bismark Carballo, Obando's special assistant. "We still have the pulpits; they are still open...
...good friend the Princess of Wales, Sarah Ferguson said yes, but her official betrothal to Prince Andrew had to wait until his mother returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. By the time Buckingham Palace released the expected announcement on the Queen's stationery last week, a crowd had gathered outside the gates. Meanwhile, Fleet Street was in a tizzy of breathless speculation that began in January after "Fergie" was invited by the Queen to a week-long New Year's house party at Sandringham...
...work that probably shows off the troupe most gloriously is an exercise in mayhem called Championship Wrestling. Set to a Garfein collage of crowd noises, sportscaster commentaries and electronic insults, it pits men against men, women against women and each against the other. The centerpiece is a duel fought in slow motion by two women who are borne on the shoulders of several supporters and who flay each other outrageously, but at a subaqueous pace. When not engaged in combat, the dancers, some of them with rakish topknots and ) splendidly authentic wrestling gear, mug and glare with a fine appreciation...