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...Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own lifetime. The total public for Titian in the 16th century or Velazquez in the 17th was probably no more than a few thousand people--though that included most of the crowned heads, nobility and intelligentsia of Europe. Picasso's audience--meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work, at least in reproduction--was in the tens, possibly hundreds, of millions. He and his work were the subjects of unending analysis...
Whatever they were, they evanesced as Bell wound up from the stretch, and broke off a hanging breaking ball. Six thousand surrogate fans who had adopted Harvard in the absence of hometown LSU gasped in unison, and Ralph pounced, drilling his team-record 10th home run of the season over the right-centerfield wall while the stadium erupted into its Cajun chant of "Geaux Harvard Geaux...
...there's definitely less than a thousand Sudanese studying in America right now," says el-Gaili, a special concentrator in development studies. He regretfully notes that when he tries to discuss the possibility of a Western education for members of his extended family living in the Middle East, the response is usually reserved...
While editors say the situation has improved under a new business manager, earlier this year editors and friends of the magazine spent several thousand dollars of their own money to maintain the publication...
While writing for a potential audience of several thousand people may be a new experience for the literature concentrator, doing comedy is not. By his own calculations, Sugarman estimates that he can imitate more than 50 voices--from that of a redneck to that of a 60-year-old chain-smoking Jewish woman...