) Some in the audience noted that, for Mr. Ackman, the presentation was relatively light on excitement.
At one point, Evans, peering at the audience, noted, "There must be a lawyer or two in the audience?" About thirty hands bashfully went up.
They gave listeners a sense of ownership, Ms. Stern said, much to the exasperation of ministers and playwrights who inveighed against unauthorized texts published from audience notes.
Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum, who was in the audience, noted that the science of human origins has moved well beyond the Leakey-Johanson debate.
A member of the delighted audience noted that it was "the first time that the song had been put into an evening dress".
A composer in the audience noted afterwards that it was like listening to period performance, because this group will find the precise attack and colour for any niche corner of the contemporary music repertoire.
When Herzog resisted shooting multiple angles of one scene, he warned him, "When we have to change the film because of audience notes, you won't have the footage to do it".
Toward the end, in the question-and-answer session, a member of the audience noted that Saudi Arabia aimed to be one of the Top 10 countries in the world in technology by 2010 and asked if that was realistic.
Whether this is driven by a fear of the unknown, or risk-aversion among senior leaders (a member of the audience noted that no one has ever been fired for maintaining the status quo) I don't quite know, but I'd ban this word from the lexicon given half a chance.
One member of the audience noted that the dream of an Asian century has been floating around for the last 100 years.
It's just a shame, the audience notes, that his opponent is nowhere to be seen.
