Word: moshed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When it is clear the motorcade is stuck and the scene outside is growing dangerous, Annan cracks open his door, steps into the mosh pit around him and begins to speak. He is not a man with a loud voice. In the noise of the crowd it is impossible to hear what he says, even from 4 feet away. He stands outside the car for 10 seconds, moving his mouth like a character in a silent film. And having seen him speak--not having heard a word he said--the rabid crowd calms and parts...
...Which left the cable networks for most of the night covering the Rage Against the Machine concert outside the Staples Center ("Does that qualify as a mosh pit?" asked Fox's Brit Hume) and trolling for celebrities to fill the space between Michael Beschloss segments. All but PBS, which wouldn't air Melissa Etheridge singing "America the Beautiful" but did air a slick DNC video about a welfare mother who opened her own business - that, apparently, does not count as a packaged showbiz event...
...billion, 247 is a demographic hiccup. in the minute before last, however, there were another 247. in the minutes to come there will be another, then another, then another. By next year at this time, all those minutes will have produced nearly 130 million newcomers to the great human mosh pit. That kind of crowd is awfully hard to miss...
...single "Ex-Girlfriend." When the crowd did start jumping for "Excuse Me Mister", the bouncers helped numerous smaller girls exit the sweaty madness, a series of altruistic actions that were first in my concert history. In a similar vein, the bouncers broke up even the smallest mosh pits, a sure sign that Avalon and No Doubt wanted the show to be family fun, a musical Make-a-Wish foundation set to ska-punk-pop. No Doubt rocked, but the crowd hardly moved...
ALAN KEYES No more debates for Mr. Indignant now that "W" has cinched it. Time to practice mosh-pit dives...