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It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.
He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.
At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.
It was not so much that the shot had stunned the audience, as that they had been stunned already.
The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.
One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.
To reach a still greater audience of location-minded manufacturers, our industrial advertising budget for the fiscal year was increased from $32,000 to $40,000, and the Industrial Building Authority's financial participation was upped from $17,000 to $20,000.
Woodbury's remarks were applauded by a portion of the audience several times and once there was hissing.
Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.
Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.
In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.
Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.
In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.
The husky 6-3, 205-pound lefthander, was in command all the way before an on-the-scene audience of only 949 and countless of television viewers in the Denver area.
The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.
It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
She was not present yesterday, however, to enjoy the music or watch the faces of the delighted audience.
The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.
So the audience last night was all ears and eyes just after Act 2, got a rousing opening chorus, `` Where's Charley??
Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket that flapped in the wind.

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On August 18, 1966, millions of Red Guards from all over the country gathered in Beijing for an audience with the Chairman.
With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. She sang before a crowd of more than 75, 000 people and a radio audience in the millions.
The event attracted a crowd of more than 75, 000 of all colors and was a sensation with a national radio audience of millions.
The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work.
Many in the studio audience ( and millions of television viewers ) realized with a shock that the entire Newhart series ( and presumably Dick Loudon's entire existence ) had just been revealed to have been nothing more than a dream in the mind of Bob Newhart's 1970s character.
At the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the group performed before the Prime Minister, John Howard, and a television audience of hundreds of millions, wearing black overalls bearing the word " sorry ".
By 1967 millions were tuning into these commercial operations and the BBC was rapidly losing its radio listening audience.
The Sopranos finale caused millions of viewers to temporarily believe they had lost cable service due to an abrupt blackout finale ; the final scene left open the fate of Tony Soprano ( series creator David Chase had wanted the cut to black to last for several minutes and take the place of post-show credits, so that the first thing the audience would see was an HBO notice, but the network refused this and there was a very short jump from the final shot to the credits ).
Thompson explains that the term ' mass ' ( which is connected to broadcasting ) suggests a ' vast audience of many thousands, even millions of passive individuals '.
On 10 July 2005 there was a national celebration of the anniversary of the ending of World War II when the song was sung live to millions by Petula Clark in central London to an audience of veterans and politicians as part of the programme ' V45 Britain At War: A Nation Remembers '.
40 cameras were used to broadcast to an audience in the tens of millions.
That GamesMaster regularly drew in audiences in the millions proved that there was a huge and so far untapped audience.
Also as Master of Ceremonies and co-organiser of the world ’ s biggest magic event featuring 800 magicians from around the world which had a combined live theatre and television audience of hundreds of millions in Bangalore, India.
The track had been on the B list on the station, guaranteeing 15 plays a week and a potential audience of millions.
On New Year's Eve 2007, he performed " Mr. Roboto ", " Come Sail Away " and many other classics to a large audience at Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, Canada, and millions of viewers via live television on CHCH-TV Channel 11.
Mat Coward wrote in his review in The Independent that the novel is " fluent and fascinating " and mentioned " Few writers have so much to say, the skills to make reading what they say an irresistible pleasure-and the clout to be able to be able to say it to an audience of millions ".
He recounted how on his first broadcast, sitting in the studio, apprehensive at the thought of being about to talk live to a potential audience of millions, his director had reminded him that although that vast audience might be statistically daunting, it was more likely to be two or three people and perhaps a dog sitting in their front room.
In the 1940s, Gould appeared on the Cresta Blanca Carnival program as well as The Chrysler Hour on CBS where he reached an audience of millions.
A Charlie Brown Christmas introduced the song to a television audience of millions of children beginning in 1965.
During one of Harmon's appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Sehorn ( almost certainly with the assistance of host Jay Leno ) hid backstage and surprised Harmon by getting on one knee and asking for her hand in marriage in front of a live studio audience and millions more watching on television.
It also had the short-term effect of doubling the Doctor Who audience, with the story Black Orchid being the final story of the regular run – and the only one of the 1980s – to break the double-figure millions barrier for the story overall, with a recorded figure of ten million viewers.
The audience average share of La7 during 2010 was 3, 1 % and the daily average of single visitors on Virgilio was 3. 7 millions.
:: Laser 558 broadcast from the MV Communicator and within a matter of months it gained an audience of millions.

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