Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country of 40 million people. During electrifying tours of the countryside, she disregarded the army guns that menaced her and her followers. And she has routinely flouted martial-law regulations prohibiting gatherings of more than five people. At one rally in Rangoon, soldiers aimed automatic weapons at the crowd that gathered to listen to her. "We are grateful to those who are giving the people practice in being brave," she snapped. While an officer recited over a loudspeaker the law prohibiting gatherings, Suu Kyi used her own microphone to confront the intruders: "May I request that the loudspeakers be quiet...
Davies, who made the film in two parts (one shot in 1985, the other in 1987), knows too that memory shuffles chronology like a deck of dog-eared cards on a rainy afternoon. His film is arranged as a series of vignettes, in which life's everyday epiphanies crowd out the sanctified rituals of birth, marriage and death. Eileen and her husband share a meal whose chill is punctuated only by their separate smiles at a radio comedian. Mother falls asleep with memories in her ear: Dad rasping for her to come to him, her young children answering the question...
...audience didn't boo, but this was a civilized crowd. They just got up and kept on walking out. In the diminishing numbers, one man asked, "What is it like in a department to function without key posts...
...Tyson's next," Foreman bellowed, arms outstretched, to the crowd. Every old man in the dim arena choked at the visage in the crimson robe -- a middle- aged Rocky in their midst. Around the stands signs shot up, echoing TYSON'S NEXT. In the dressing room Foreman chortled, "Cooper tried to run, but the ring was too small. They're all thinking, 'What's George going...
...Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington. They were anxiously awaiting the outcome of one of the most intensely watched corporate takeover fights in the 197-year history of the court. When clerks appeared at 10:30 with copies of Chancellor William Allen's 79-page ruling, the aggressive crowd tore the documents from the court officials' hands. Dialing their offices, moneymen shouted into their cellular phones, "The Time-Warner merger...