Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nominate Hollywood wunderkind Steven Speilberg for his directorial effort in The Color Purple. The Academy gave itself away as a bunch of jealous, unappreciative snobs when it failed to commend Speilberg for E.T, choosing to give the Best Director award of 1982 to Sir Richard Attenborough for his crowd control talents in Gandhi...
When the buzzer sounded, the home crowd went wild. Their team had beaten the NBA's best. I had never really liked the Celtics, I had never really followed the team. But this time they were underdogs down the stretch, and I wanted them to win. I knew that if it came down to Bird in the final minutes, the Celtics would...
...point, a brief fist fight broke out between two members of the audience in the rear of the Carpenter Center auditorium, where Yevtushenko was addressing a crowd of several hundred...
...Ugandans gathered outside the cream-colored Parliament building to watch as Rebel Leader Yoweri Museveni was sworn in as President just three days after his insurgents routed the forces of the military government that had seized power in a coup only six months earlier. A hush fell over the crowd as Museveni, dressed in the unadorned fatigues of an army private, took the oath of office from the Chief Justice of Uganda's Supreme Court. Then, his hand still resting on a Bible, he declared, "No one can think that what is happening today, what has been happening...
Coming from a seasoned campaigner with a reputation for masterly verbal pyrotechnics, the words seemed slightly absurd. "God is with us!" President Ferdinand Marcos declared before a crowd of 50,000 in Davao on the southern island of Mindanao. "God knows that to protect the Filipino people, (we) must...