Oscar or no Oscar, the crowd's main interest in Kathryn Bigelow was how marvellous she looks for 58.
No doubt the very real chance of disaster and injury added to the crowd's keen interest, as mishaps were not uncommon.
However, leaving the search totally undirected might also leave out important areas of technologies, as the results will depend solely on the crowd's personal interests.
That situation was standard for a match between an M.L.S. team and a European club at the time and yet, despite the crowd's apparent rooting interest and despite Kansas City's having a player ejected after only a half-hour, the Wizards pulled off a stunning upset, beating United by 2-1.
To Andy's credit, he seemed aware of the crowd's low-minded interest in his models.
Friday officially began with a surprise Other stage set by Beady Eye, revealing hitherto unsuspected humility on the part of former headliner Liam Gallagher, who must be less than thrilled by the crowd's sudden spike in interest every time his new band play an Oasis song.
The project was rooted in Mr. Pugh's interest in crowd-sourcing, a term for divvying up tasks by way of the Web.
Canetti's interest in crowds crystallized after he witnessed street rioting over inflation in Frankfurt in the 1920s and the burning by an angry mob of the Vienna Palace of Justice in 1927.
