Dressed in colorful clothes as instructed, audience members for the last taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" assembled outside Harpo Studios on Tuesday to take part in television history and to pay homage to the woman who reshaped the medium and, some claimed, their lives.
To raise, for an uninstructed audience, the question of what comes first, a civilized society or an instinctive wish for civilization, can't be a bad effect for an entertainment to have; although we might have to be part of an instructed audience ourselves in order to find that effect good, and we had better be protected by the police and an army from anyone who finds it trivial.
During his preliminaries, Rodeheaver often instructed audiences about how to muffle their coughs.
Like last year's "The Bestseller Code," which described an algorithm that predicted the plots of popular novels, "Mauve" wagers that the "digital humanities," as they've uneasily come to be known, can instruct audiences outside of the academy.
Plays like these would be chosen not so much to instruct audiences in outsiderness, per se, as to show how marginalization is handled, or not handled, on the American stage, and how much the subject can reveal about a playwright's interest in failure, including his or her own.
She instructed her audience to put away their books, as she would be speaking by heart.
Raise your hand if you think there will be a buyout worth $5 billion to $10 billion this year, he instructed the audience.
Quoting Colossians 1 16, they instructed the audience to write "My body was created BY God and FOR God" and "Resist PROCRASTINATION at every turn".
"Homosexuality = AIDS = 100%," declared one placard, while Museveni instructed the audience that: "The mouth is for eating, it is not for gonorrhoea".
Before beginning "The Wolves (Act I and II)," which closed the main set, Mr. Vernon instructed the audience to sing along with the refrain from the song's second half.
Chastened, perhaps, after the finger-shaking tirades of the last month, Clinton's tone was unusually subdued and measured, at times school-marmish, as he instructed his audience, point by point, in the things they needed to know to make the "right" choice in the election.
