Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League teams exchange a pair of game films the week before they meet. The arrangements for nonleague games are less standard, but always present in some form...
...Hendu has struck out far more often than he has homered. Roger Clemens and Rich Gedman began the season late after holding out for more money. Oil Can Boyd shoulder was hurt. Jim Rice forgot how to hit home runs--much less anything else. Calvin Schiraldi continued to throw meatball pitches right over the plate. The upshot of all this was that the Red Sox were never even in contention, dashing the expectations of fans all over New England...
However, increasingly, public events in our country have become nothing more than examples of the fine art of crowd control. The celebrations have become homages to the state less than events for the people...
...long period in American history, public celebrations were rowdy and raucus. One means of citizens claiming public space was for them to have fun in it in a less than orderly way. Drink was an integral part of daily life, but even more importantly, those public occasions were by no means tame. Their purpose was to provide a chance for the public to come together as people having fun, rather than as citizens playing the part of observers in a well-planned event...
Spontaneous public events are going the way of the past, to be replaced by more official, better planned mass events. As they become the dominant from of public expression it is inevitable that the less rigid old-style from of public meeting will be viewed negatively. How else can one explain the MDC's vastly over blown fears of rampant hooliganism at the Head of the Charles...