Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's Riverwalk and in hotel lobbies and elevators, where the songsters break out in "woodshedding" -- the impromptu jam-session-like warbling of old chestnuts -- the camaraderie runs thick. At the Hyatt Regency, three old-timers search the crowd for a baritone. "Come over here, Jamie," one hollers. Let Me Call You Sweetheart suddenly gushes forth, halting a bellman in his tracks...
...moms and weathered-looking women in wind- breakers, started singing their national anthem, alone and a cappella in the big arena. On television, they said, it was a moving sight. In person, the scene was something else: a little embarrassing, a little giggle-making -- and so, when the impromptu chorus rose up, moving in an even deeper way. An unscheduled song of national pride. A fanfare for the Ordinary...
...least impersonal of cities. Understatement has no place here. Rather, this is a brawny, rough-and-tumble, rollicking place, animated by the earthy good humor of its Chaucerian folk. Hurly-burly impromptu is the way of Seoul. Round-faced women set up huge speakers on busy street corners, then sit beside them, crooning along to organ music as they entertain themselves. Hypervendors stack up rows of imitation Reeboks on the hoods of cars, using the backseats as storerooms for their goods. A man wanders out onto the sidewalk in his pajamas...
...curious example of violence spilling over from the arena into the streets, Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson and one of his earliest ring conquests staged an impromptu rematch in New York City around 4:30 a.m. outside a 125th Street haberdashery that boasts a formidable clientele. Anyone purchasing a necktie at that hour better at least have been the champion of the Pacific fleet. After giving Mitch ("Blood") Green a Carmen Basilio facial, crumpling one of his licensed hands in the process, Tyson momentarily faced charges brought not by the law but by Green. They were eventually dropped...
...Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, Kennedy, ignoring the advice of his political advisers, went into Harlem and gave an impromptu news conference...