Word: whoopie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Students had to take the initiative to get in line and to arrive there early enough to be admitted into the theatre to see Annan," he said. "With Whoopi, the lottery took away the students' control...
Despite the fact that her credentials range from an Academy Award to lauded improvisational comedy and autobiographies, Whoopi Goldberg could not draw enough spectators to fill the 1,100-seat Sanders Theatre to capacity on Monday afternoon...
...problem was not that people were uninterested in seeing Whoopi lecture," Thomas S. Lee, coordinator of the Learning from Performers program, which brings visiting artists such as Goldberg to the University, said. "It's that the students didn't follow up and claim their tickets...
...This is just completely different from when Nelson Mandela or Kofi Annan came to speak to us," she said. "With them, I knew about the lectures because of word of mouth. But no one was even talking about Whoopi coming to speak...
...deadpan introduction Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 called Goldberg an "artistic genius" and presented her with a picture of soon-to-be-sent official Harvard rocking chair engraved with the inscription "Rock on, Whoopi...