Word: spectatorly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford escaped injury yesterday in San Francisco as an alert spectator deflected the gun of a would-be assassin just as it went off.
Moore stood in a sizeable crowd which had gathered to carch a glimpse of Ford as he left the hotel where he had been speaking. As Ford approached his limosine, Moore, standing 35 to 40 feet away, took one shot at Ford. But another spectator struck Moore's arm just...
>Television has become so enamored of the game's sales potential that a blur of live and taped tennis saturates the stay-at-home spectator. One weekend afternoon bewildered fans watched Billie Jean King, for instance, play against two different opponents in two different tournaments on two different channels...
Getting into any Harvard intercollegiate contest as a spectator is pretty easy. Harvard is about the only college in the country that charges no admission to undergraduate sports events--with the exception of the Dartmouth and Yale football games, when undergrads must pay half price.
Jaws is almost like a latent dream. While the observer may not consciously realize it, the film offers a metaphor for aggression. It plays out violent tendencies willed but suppressed by the spectator. The relief that meets the end of each shark attack does not just come with the certainty...