Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to win the Harvard/Yale Game?" is not a question most Harvard students have to agonize about. But today's crowd at Harvard Stadium will be sprinkled with fans whose allegiances won't be that simple. For them, cheering for their team will also mean rebelling against their parents, breaking with their siblings, and sometimes even rooting against their own alma maters...
Yesterday Franklin, now a California lawyer, sipped a drink in a crowd at the Carey Cage gymnasium, remembering that epic clash. "It was over. Nothing you can do about it when it's over," he said. "I've gotten ribbed a lot over the years...
Yale came back the next year to win. In that game, the Flis started what today might be called an endzone celebration. When a Yale player kicked the ball over the goal in the final period to give the Elis a lead, the partisan crowd stormed onto the field and pranced around for 20 minutes...
That night Mike Tyson had taken on one of his many soon-to-be defeated challengers. We all began talking about Iron Mike, and then Jason and I took some jabs against each other, imagining the cheering crowd, fancying ourselves contenders for the heavyweight crown. We had both come to see The Game. Along the way, we had the fortune to catch up on a game...
...worship Eva Peron inspires is eerily reminiscent of fascism--the crowd chants "Pe-ron" over and over again--and Rebecca Shannon's excellent choreography heightens the resemblance by having chorus members thrust their arms out in rhythmic salutes. Shannon also makes good use of the Mainstage's ample space, as she balances different groups off one another. In "Peron's Latest Flame," for example, the aristocrats step lightly and delicately, tilting their cigarette holders in disgust, while the military men stomp across the stage swinging their arms...