"In the pecking order, audiences are looking for celebrity," said Don Walker, head of the Harry Walker Agency, which represents Mr. Clinton, former President Gerald R. Ford and, until recently, the first President Bush.
The death penalty plays well to Law & Order audiences but doesn't fare so well when it comes to actual deterrence.
Frank Rich, in The Times, described the show as "a temper tantrum in two acts" but noted that the climax, where the famous man breaks down and veers between ordering audience members to leave and begging them to stay, was a moment of self-awareness that "holds out at least the slender hope that Mr. Albee might yet pick himself up from the floor".
Boinging up and down is his default mode – whether singing or rapping, he's perpetually in mid-bounce, and orders audiences to join in.
The arrests are among the first that authorities have made in the days since a ruling by the country's high court took effect requiring movie theaters throughout the country to play the "Jana Gana Mana" before every film and ordering audiences to stand to face an image of the Indian flag for the duration of the song.
Even the most successful stand-up comedians, like Chris Rock, try thousands of new ideas in front of small club audiences in order to develop a one-hour act.
When she barks orders, her audience purrs.
Before the two men emerged, Jim Lehrer, the moderator, had ordered the audience to remain "absolutely silent".
Mr. Noble refuses to smile and orders the audience to leave at the end, but you can't help thinking that beneath all the bluster is a man who badly, desperately wants to be loved.
In 1976 – the year before the Clash's "White Riot" – and eight years after Powell's major speeches, one of my heroes, Eric Clapton, ordered an audience to vote for Powell to prevent Britain becoming a "black colony".
The other homie from Linkin Park rapped a hurried verse after repeatedly ordering the audience to "Jump!" and "Make some noise".
