Word: grandstanding
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...Polo Grounds park is located on the edge of Harlem, and a Jack Robinson would step up his already substantial Negro trade. The clubs least likely to cross the racial bridge were the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns, who until recently did not even allow Negroes in the grandstand...
...musical disfavor among her peers, Ronstadt has found a fresh direction. What's New, released last week by Asylum, avoids all the obvious routes. Powered by the celestial arrangements of Nelson Riddle, the album is not a sentimental journey, a dizzy camp-out or a show-biz grandstand play. It is a simple, almost reverent, rendering of nine great songs that time has not touched. At first hearing, Ronstadt's fans may be taken aback by the suave but swinging Riddle orchestra, by the playfulness and sophistication of the lyrics, by the tidal pulls of strong melody; this...
...stock-car race. All of this is too much for Fran, who did not want to come in the first place. She eyes the screen: "Maybe one of those damn cars will explode right in front of us. Or else maybe one'll run up into the grandstand and smash the guy selling the crummy hot dogs." Her aggressive remark is double-honed: it registers Fran's contempt for her enforced surroundings and the notion that there is nothing like violence to break up tedium...
...down the beachfront motel strip adjoining Florida's Kennedy Space Center last week, space buffs gathered in force. SORRY, NO VACANCY signs hung as far as 50 miles away. Some 1,600 correspondents packed the press grandstand. On the beaches around Cape Canaveral, half a million people watched. Not since the first flight of Columbia two years ago had so many enthusiasts assembled for a shuttle liftoff...
While several legislators said the broadcasts might cause some debaters to grandstand for the camera, Paleologos countered that not enough legislators are active on the floor anyway. "We always hear from the same old people," he said...