Word: throngs
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...waiting list. The Toy Station in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest is next. It's now snowing like crazy, and it takes me almost an hour to get there. But my holiday adrenaline has kicked in. I double-park and push past a throng of parents. The salespeople laugh out loud when I voice my request...
...characteristic Friday evening at Symphony Hall, a curious phenomenon occurs. Ten minutes before the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) strikes its first note, a predominantly white-haired throng of season subscribers makes its way through the ornate doors of the hall, down the lighted aisles and fills the seats of the auditorium. Moments later, moving virtually unnoticed, a small number of unbefitting young people shuffle through the mobs of veteran classical music connoisseurs, finding their seats in the shadows of the older crowd...
...fight, even with China. But last week, at a rally in Taoyuan county for this Saturday's legislative election, Chen was playing peacemaker. Dressed down in a blue shirt open at the collar and a beige vest splashed with party slogans in green Chinese characters, Chen asked the throng of several thousand to give his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) the majority in the legislature that it currently lacks. If he gets it, pledged Chen, he would push to resume talks with Beijing. "I'd like to end the hostility between China and Taiwan," he said, stretching out both arms...
...scenes of young people blowing whistles, banging drums and handing out cough drops amid the throng of protesters in Kiev last week looked familiar, they should: student-led mass protests also followed disputed elections in Tbilisi last year and in Belgrade in 2000, and each time the opposition prevailed. At least one group has played a role in all three movements. Serbia's Otpor, or Resistance, the student organization that spearheaded the revolution that ousted Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, sent "trainers" to aid activists who helped unseat Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003. And earlier this year, the group provided...
After five minutes of mindless wandering, I found the hordes of Parisian fashionistas with their mud-stained Manolos outside the Espace Ephemère.I entered slightly soaked and walked down the runway, passing a throng of cameramen surrounding Parisian it-girl Lou Doillon in her green chiffon and cowboy boots. Shuffled into the back standing area, I scanned the front row: Anna Wintour (Vogue), Patrick McCarthy (W), Suzy Menkes (IHT) and a veritable plethora of other journalists, buyers and celebrities...