Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard police receive a call that a "Couple of hundred youths" are loitering in front of Grays Hall. The crowd appears to have spilled out of party at a nearby dorm. Police move through the crowd urging people to "move along...
...love it? At Tracks, a trendy New York City nightclub, the crowd gathers around the dance floor to watch a group called the House of Extravaganza do its stuff. The dancers, dressed in outrageous outfits, wave their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...
Vogueing pranced a step or two nearer the mainstream last week. The houses of Extravaganza and Magnifique, among others, strutted their stuff at the venerable Roseland Ballroom for a show sponsored by the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS. Among the crowd present: the Talking Heads' David Byrne, actress Gwen Verdon and real fashion model Iman. Said the evening's master of ceremonies, David Ian Extravaganza: "I never thought I'd see the day when we'd be doing this downtown." Well, no; but, then again, don't dance off to California either, David. Vogueing has not yet arrived...
Nostalgia for such an ideal was reflected yesterday in the posters of former leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai that appeared in the marching crowd...
Rumors spread through the crowd yesterday afternoon that Deng had retired, touching off welps for joy and standing ovations...