Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HUPD also dispersed the crowd outside...
This year's Halloween celebration ended with a near-riot. After some idiots in the already thinning crowd started throwing bottles at cops a little before midnight, the whole police contingent--including mounted police, a couple of police dogs, a few officers on motorcycles and dozens on foot--methodically cleared the streets in the center of town...
...violence and bigotry is clear. Yet, last Wednesday, Sharpton took his seat on the dais as an official guest of Harvard Law School, and the overwhelming majority of the student body and faculty was silent. The few who dared challenge Sharpton's appearance were booed and hissed by a crowd packed with Sharpton supporters...
...Ellen," the eminent 89-year-old philanthropist, was the eighth. First was Italian stage actress Eleanora Duse, whose portrait ran on the July 30, 1923, issue. The cover story, a little over one column long (not unusual in those days), noted, "She preferred to make entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor...
...Fever has done almost everything wrong. It's a big, splashy musical trying to replicate a hit movie, a pretty crass way to make a buck. Its director, Arlene Phillips, is better known for staging extravaganzas in Las Vegas. The show is loud and pushy and panders to the crowd shamelessly. Worse, it overcame critical hoots to become a smash in London, a feat it now has the audacity to think it can repeat in New York City...