Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contest, held at Ithaca's Barton Hall, began at 6:30 p.m. to accomodate fans wishing to attend the Cornell-Yale hockey game later that evening. Five thousand spectators attended the early start, the largest audience to watch the Crimson in a league contest this year...
...Five thousand people at an Ivy League basketball game...
...playing is the decadent decor, some menacing portents and a pair of actors (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger) looking for their motivations in various chic Manhattan locales. Adrian Lyne, late of Flashdance, directed this silliness, and three writers watched their script fall victim to the death of a thousand cuts. Maybe they should have photographed that...
Cheerleaders wearing the school's gold-and-green colors led the emotional pep rally. More than a thousand pupils--almost the entire student body--assembled, many of them wearing paper hearts with the words CHOOSE LIFE. They hugged one another, cheered their athletic teams and sang We Are the World. The lyric "We're saving our own lives" understandably brought many to tears: the rally had been called to calm the student body after three youths at Bryan High School on the outskirts of Omaha committed suicide within five days...
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't consider one thousand packets of Kool-Aid sprinkled all over the Quad as ART. What I consider it, and I'm certainly not alone, is an eyesore that smells like a five-year-old sweet-tooth's fantasy. The only difference between spreading artificial flavoring over the snow and spray painting it is that neighborhood dogs don't love to lick up spray paint...