Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this issue was not simply telling a story but also bringing special insight. Playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Addams Family Values) stirred up a refreshing appraisal of the iconic appeal of Marilyn Monroe, focusing on the legacy of her celluloid image instead of the tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron to unshakable icon...
Maybe something was lost in the translation, but a crowd of concertgoers in Modena, Italy, heard Luciano Pavarotti say that MICHAEL JACKSON couldn't make it to the charity concert because Jackson's son "may be dying." It was shocking news, especially to the two-year-old's mother Deborah Rowe Jackson. "To hear that your child is dying and to find it on the news--and it not be true--is terrifying," she told Los Angeles' KNBC-TV before leaving to join her son and husband in New York City. She said PRINCE had a virus infection, which caused...
...Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan's spokesman attributed the champ's reluctance to compete to a dispute between Nakajima and TV Tokyo, his onetime sponsor. Nathan's has called for Jesse Jackson to intervene, but the thorny conflict rages. Nakajima would not discuss the dispute or how it affects his plans, except...
...W.S.P.U. adopted a French Revolutionary sense of crowd management, public spectacle and symbolic ceremony. They would greet one of their number on release from prison and draw her triumphantly in a flower-decked wagon through the streets, and they staged elaborate allegorical pageants and torchlight processions, with Mrs. Pankhurst proudly walking at their head (if she wasn't in jail). Her example was followed internationally: the U.S. suffragist Alice Paul, who had taken part in suffragist agitation when she was a student at the London School of Economics, imported Pankhurst militancy to the U.S., leading a march 5,000 strong...
...movement of lips. You must understand that even more than sighted people, we need to be touched. When you look at a person, eye to eye, I imagine it's like touching them. We don't have that convenience. But when I perform, I get that experience from a crowd. Helen Keller must have as well. She was our first star. And I am very grateful...