Active, engaged crowds are fun to watch.
The viewership of the Super Bowl, which Nielsen says was the most-watched TV program ever, showed the potential for reaching big, engaged crowds.
I gave a book talk there recently, and it was one of the most engaged crowds I've ever spoken to.
I have been to the Book Fair before, and it's one of the country's best: they charge admission, so the people who end up there have a vested interest in books, which makes for engaged crowds.
I jostled with dense, intensely engaged crowds for passing glimpses, particularly of the soft-bellied Northern Qi Dynasty figures in the last gallery, my favorites in the show, probably because their spare, lean, gently undulating shapes seem so modern (they reminded me of Cambodian sculptures I love in the Met), but also because they convey an aloofness that is sexual.
"Each of these artists possess experienced performing bodies that have engaged crowds on a number of different levels," says Sprang on his lineup of artists.
Even so, this was a highly engaged crowd, united by their shared commitment to ending the Obama Presidency.
The large and engaged crowd, announced at 30,332, chanted Dickey's name for much of the latter part of the game.
It thus attracts an unusually engaged crowd, rather than people who want to get drunk in a park while talking over bands.
Tonight, I read to an engaged crowd of supporters of the excellent local public library in a lecture hall called McCosh 50, a large space iconic enough to have been featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".
