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...invasion of their middle-class retreat has horrified Fisher's neighbors and those of her alleged victim, Mary Jo Buttafuoco. The throng of reporters has turned life near both houses into a kind of theater. At the Fisher home on a quiet dead end and at the Stitch N Sew fabric store owned by Amy's parents a few minutes' drive away, doors are shut, blinds are drawn, the symbolic drawbridge is up, and the castle is meant to seem inviolable. At the Buttafuoco home, the style is defiance. A steady stream of traffic, automotive and human, proclaims this...
...conclusion of the service, thegraduating seniors filed out to the sound of organmusic, greeted outside by a jostling throng ofcamera-wielding parents
However, a Boston Herald description of the crowd attending a 1903 game pitting Boston against Pittsburgh conveys a classless ballpark environment: "The vast throng that looked on as the American champions were forced down to defact was cosmopolitan in the broadest sense of the word. Side by side sat professional men and grocery clerks, ministers and sports, college professors and graduates of he sand lots, all bound together by one great, all-absorbing love for the national game...
Looking alternately happy and stunned, first-years entered the Harvard Union for lunch yesterday after receiving their lottery assignments to find a throng of cheering upperclass students, eager to welcome them to the houses...
...Wiggling back and forth on skis around a series of powdery bumps, periodically climbing these hillocks to leap off, flinging one's limbs spread eagle for a nanosecond or thrusting one's hindquarters left and right during a fleeting free fall. Skating at breakneck pace in a roller-derby throng around the perimeter of a hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path of a flat, slow-moving stone. Or ducking one's head, bracing one's breakables and trying to hurtle faster than a sports car down...