Word: demo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoarse was not the most exciting thing I'd ever done. But what struck me was that, aside from the simple act of marching. I was not very different from the people in the stadium that afternoon. I would have been there too had I not felt that the demo was a better way for me to spend my time...
...game. The other 70 don't even get to practice much. Jim Kozlowski, a third string safety, estimates that he gets to practice as a "Harvard" player about 1 per cent of the time. He spends the rest of his time standing around and playing end on the demo squad (that's for demonstration not demolition), which gives the defense a preview of its next opponent's offense...
More importantly, his outlook changed. "I used to think of the football team in terms of personal statistics. Now I think about what it means to me being part of the team. I make a real contribution. I play on the demo squad, I chart plays during the game and I keep guys loose by kidding around with things like my Elvis imitation in the locker room," he said...
...Plans a Demo...
...demo was a big success," the thirtyish black guy informed me proudly. He was friendly and cheerful and seemed perfectly sane, but it didn't seem to make sense, even when he asked me if I'd counted the cars--"the cars, man, didn't you notice how heavy the traffic was?"--that had turned out to protest against Polaroid. Where had he himself been during the demonstration, for example...