Through the years, he has been a thoroughgoing crowd pleaser.
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Without the implicit richness that came with Martin's fiction undergirding it, Game of Thrones is coming to seem, as Todd VanDerWerff says, much more like a conventional drama, rushing from crowd pleaser to crowd pleaser.
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Music is a crowd-pleaser, and games can bring everyone together.
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Another seemingly unanimous crowd-pleaser is Aldi's selection of specialty chocolates.
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The $875 midtier Harman Kardon audio system is a crowd pleaser.
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Styles then ended the show with his evergreen crowd-pleaser, "Kiwi."
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Yes, it is a crowd-pleaser, but it's not just that.
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Marvel movies are usually a safe bet for an inoffensive crowd-pleaser.
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Either way, this Scottish shortbread is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
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Support for Israel is an easy crowd pleaser for Republican presidential candidates.
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This milky, soft, stretched cheese from Campania is definitely a crowd pleaser.
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It's as effortless a crowd-pleaser as any film in recent memory.
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Because, two may be a party, but three's always a crowd...pleaser.
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And — talk about a crowd pleaser — he ended with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
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This recipe is tasty, low in sugar, and a total crowd pleaser.
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Costco's free samples in its food sections are a huge crowd-pleaser.
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But the 1905 canvas was by no means a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.
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Also like Bernstein, Mr. Previn was a crowd-pleaser as a conductor.
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With his shining coat and smiling face, Daniel was a major crowd-pleaser.
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This fun gift is always a crowd pleaser and helps get everyone involved.
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But the Max falls very much into the 'crowd pleaser' sort of speaker.
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He's a performer, after all, and he delivered a crowd-pleaser in reply.
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The glazed doughnut strip—the biggest crowd-pleaser—yielded the most saliva production.
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After all ... Pete isn't necessarily the gold standard of being a crowd-pleaser.
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The beauties of "I Puritani" are subtle; the opera is no crowd-pleaser.
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"Poppea," perhaps the greatest of the three works, is also the crowd-pleaser.
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No matter what everyone's musical tastes or backgrounds were, Michael was the crowd-pleaser.
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Covenant is not an easy crowd-pleaser, and that's the best thing about it.
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Cassee might have been nontraditional, but she was nothing if not a crowd-pleaser.
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Some consider it the Italian equivalent of macaroni and cheese — a simple crowd-pleaser.
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It was the polar opposite of Gaga's Grammys performance, very classic Hollywood crowd-pleaser.
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"Virgil Wander" is a lush crowd-pleaser about meaning and second chances and magic.
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For Mr. Trump and his supporters, penalizing Mr. Acosta was a sure crowd-pleaser.
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Simple ingredients and an overnight rise make this thick pizza a real crowd-pleaser.
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But as the basis for a family crowd-pleaser, the pairing is often irresistible.
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This creamy, wintry pasta with canned pumpkin and kale is an utter crowd-pleaser.
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The line was a constant crowd-pleaser on the trail ranging from Iowa to Florida.
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Ted Cruz often joked about repealing the law, a crowd pleaser on the campaign trail.
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Nicki Minaj is a real crowd pleaser, and her "Black Beatles" freestyle is no exception.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The newest Olympic sport should prove to be a crowd-pleaser straight away.
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The museum's first show dedicated to a contemporary painter is likely to be a crowd-pleaser.
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It's a crowd-pleaser that hits just enough notes to succeed — nothing more, and nothing less.
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Your profile should include a few crowd-pleaser items that will appeal to a wider audience.
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Not only is it incredibly easy to use and completely addictive, it's a huge crowd-pleaser.
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Even the opening-night selection, traditionally a lightweight, star-driven crowd-pleaser, has a ghoulish edge.
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"Sex With Your Ex" could have been the jaunty crowd-pleaser its opening piano lick promises.
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" But, he added, "as the basis for a family crowd-pleaser, the pairing is often irresistible.
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Garlicky with a little bit of heat, we thank you, Tim, for this simple crowd-pleaser.
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Talk about a crowd-pleaser and a rollicking reward for puzzling through the oddly phrased clue.
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That was my entry into being like 'Movies are fucking great,' because that's the biggest crowd pleaser.
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"This savory breakfast is a crowd-pleaser," says Tamron Hall, an Emmy-nominated journalist and avid cook.
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The thing is, the kind of philosophically-inclined defeatism I just endorsed isn't really a crowd pleaser.
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It wasn't exactly the crowd pleaser everyone at the O2 Arena had hoped for on Saturday night.
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If Once was a lo-fi crowd pleaser, Sing Street is a Dolby surround-sound dopamine rush.
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But about that ... The case against Green Book winning Best Picture: Is it really a crowd pleaser?
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And her joke about ex-boyfriends is a crowd-pleaser in Los Angeles and the Midwest too.
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A well-executed glazed doughnut is always a crowd-pleaser, and Dunkin's Classic Glazed is no exception.
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, this set is extremely bass-heavy, a definite crowd-pleaser.
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While having a superstar is definitely a crowd pleaser, it is usually not enough to guarantee success.
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And pumpkin spice is, despite any backlash over the reckless over-pumpkinizing of fall foods, a crowd-pleaser.
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There's no question that a cheese plate is a crowd-pleaser at any Friendsgiving (sorry, dairy-free friends!).
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It works well as a companion piece to Dunkirk, but it's a crowd pleaser on its own too.
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Like chocolatey, powdered-sugar-dusted clouds, these fluffy, chewy vegan cookies are sure to be a crowd pleaser.
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Just look at those smooth edges and friendly exterior — UPS's newest delivery truck is quite the crowd-pleaser.
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Just take one look at that fin and you can see why this ship is a crowd pleaser.
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The chef and author of At My Table shares a "most robust version" of the classic crowd-pleaser.
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Some saw a well-made art-house crowd pleaser in "Lion," which is set for release on Nov.
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The Pharaoh sunglasses, in all their metallic-mirrored glory, have been a crowd-pleaser for a while now.
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The same qualities that make Cards Against Humanity boring and unfunny also make it a reliable crowd-pleaser.
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It was a huge crowd-pleaser at the Toronto Film Festival and probably will be everywhere else, too.
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This is a guaranteed crowd pleaser, and a nod to the fresh picked flavors of the season. Cheers!
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It has been a crowd-pleaser for more than 20 years and the busiest restaurant in the area.
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It looks like a promising crowd-pleaser for fans that have been waiting five years for a sequel.
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It's a crowd pleaser because it gives our kids the thing we all loved most at their age.
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The game quickly proved to be a crowd pleaser when "lap dance" was the first word to pop up.
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ChocolateThere's a reason chocolate is everywhere come February, and it's not just because it's a nearly universal crowd pleaser.
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This Amazon Prime Video series, which swept the Emmys earlier this year, is the definition of a crowd-pleaser.
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I'm unsure if I would call it musical talent but he was definitely a crowd pleaser on the mic.
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Rolo Pecan Pretzel For the final salty-sweet treat, the HGTV star whips up a 3-ingredient crowd-pleaser.
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On paper, I am a mainstream Middle Eastern crowd pleaser, and that's part of my own narrative of hoodwinking.
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Besides that, it's got all the elements of a foolproof crowd-pleaser: cake, custard, fruit, booze, and crunchy bits.
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Somewhere between casserole and sweet potato streusel, this vegan version of a holiday classic will be a crowd pleaser.
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This one is sure to be a crowd pleaser, and you'll probably want to buy one for yourself, too.
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The Knot chose to include it on the gala menu because they knew it would be a crowd pleaser.
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Dee Roscioli is a crowd pleaser as the eccentric shop owner and town misfit who gives Luke a job.
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Amazon spent $13 million to acquire this crowd-pleaser, which is really a showcase for everything Thompson can do.
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For Trump, it is a campaign trail crowd pleaser that is a big deal for his die-hard supporters.
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Now, she swears by her go-to mac and cheese as an easy crowd pleaser for beginners in the kitchen.
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It's like a chili fries/nachos hybrid that's easy to make (basically just one pot) and such a crowd pleaser.
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For all its faults, for all its by-the-numbers plotting and soul-deep artificiality, it is a crowd pleaser.
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To some degree, it's a crowd-pleaser, but in the end, it's just another gadget to tell you the weather.
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If anyone could turn Cline's collection of pop culture references and videogame narrative mechanics into a crowd-pleaser, it's him.
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One could conceivably craft a Capra-esque, scrappy-underdog crowd-pleaser here, or a parable on the excesses of capitalism.
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It manages to be a real crowd-pleaser despite a signature song that warns of the fallacy of Hollywood endings.
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He said that while he has had several viral pieces of content on TikTok, not everything is a crowd-pleaser.
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Sure, Nitesh Tiwari's Bollywood crowd-pleaser "Dangal" follows a formula: Father abandons his dream of being an international wrestling champion.
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The Honor Band 5, a fitness band unlike any other, is another device that's sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
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With organic molasses, ginger nibs and plenty of seasonal spices they are "a total crowd-pleaser at holiday parties," she says.
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He believes—rightfully so—that any costume referencing a viral fad in popular culture is bound to be a crowd pleaser.
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Crowd pleaser: The Polish government has reportedly promised the White House that there would be a massive crowd upon Trump's arrival.
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The Killers' Interpol cover was a crowd-pleaser, too, with millennials welcoming a wave of nostalgia from when they were young.
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Even today, the delicate fragrance is a real "crowd pleaser" — even if glitter stickers are still waiting for their true renaissance.
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Parents have enough on their plates as it is; any product that simplifies things is going to be a crowd pleaser.
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Inspired by the British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor's memoir "Greetings from Bury Park," this Sundance-approved crowd-pleaser doesn't skimp on songs.
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"The Fog" is more spooky yarn than streamlined scream machine; it's the sort of crowd pleaser best enjoyed with an audience.
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A deconstructed California roll perching atop a perfectly fried pocket of sushi rice seems like a sure-fire crowd pleaser, no?
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Critic- and crowd-pleaser Hell or High Water, a contemporary take on both Westerns and heists, continues to expand into new theaters.
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Rapper YFN Lucci was apparently too much of a crowd pleaser, because an adoring fan hopped onstage to get close ... too close.
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The caviar baked potatoes are reportedly a favorite of Brad Pitt, according to Bon Appetit, and continue to be a crowd pleaser.
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Calling for "tougher scrutiny" of charters — always a crowd pleaser for the swelling pushback movement against charters — would have worked as well.
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Like any other successful DJ, Aoki is a crowd pleaser at heart, albeit one who thinks in a widescreen, Michael Bay format.
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Max Lamb introduced a splatter-painted stool for the British design brand Hem with an infallible crowd-pleaser: an ice-cream social.
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It's a crowd-pleaser, has the critical backing to be taken seriously, and Hollywood loves a story about the perils of fame.
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The wine, made about equally of sauvignon blanc, grenache blanc and clairette, was lively and pungent, and would be a crowd pleaser.
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Once a leftist firebrand, Tsipras, 44, built his career as the crowd-pleaser who stood up to creditors and their austerity demands.
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An aluminum Christmas tree by Philippe Parreno prompted discussion of whether "Anomalisa" would prove to be a crowd-pleaser for the holidays.
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TVs and streaming services CES is always a crowd pleaser when it comes to new TVs: the bigger, the flashier the better.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Unlike the majority of Oscar Wilde's works, his tragedy Salomé (1891) is not a crowd-pleaser.
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Justin Theroux has returned to Instagram for the first time since announcing his split from Jennifer Aniston with a sure crowd pleaser: dogs!
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Might he be tempted to biff a pipsqueak neighbour in the South China Sea or succumb to Japan-baiting, always a crowd-pleaser?
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"My kale salad is a great crowd pleaser," he says, adding he also regularly prepares a side of russet potatoes cooked with rosemary.
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This San Francisco classic has a rich, fascinating history, but what's most important is that it's light, fruity, and a true crowd pleaser.
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It was introduced as a crowd pleaser with a lower cost build that didn't actually make many sacrifices in terms of compute power.
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" But there was overlap, such as a crowd-pleaser about Democrats being forced to "impeach this president because they cannot defeat these president.
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The erstwhile frontrunners gave up some ground to crowd-pleaser The Martian, which won for best motion picture comedy and for star Matt Damon.
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So the dashcam footage released by the Metropolitan Police, London's force, of officers ramming suspected criminals off their mopeds was a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.
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Likewise, while an ad for the WWE could be a crowd-pleaser in South America, it could fall on deaf ears in North America.
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So to celebrate National Chocolate Chip Day, we've compiled a list of some of the most unique and enticing spins on this crowd-pleaser.
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This news will likely be music to fans' ears since the "Bughead" romance was a surprise crowd-pleaser on the CW show's first season.
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This delicious lemon-almond cake, filled with fresh strawberries and blueberries and layered with cream cheese icing, is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
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This dish takes up to 35 minutes to prepare, so it's a great crowd pleaser that you can whip up right before the game.
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Mrs May is not the sort of crowd-pleaser who wows party conferences; nor is she seen in Westminster as particularly warm or friendly.
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As the event reached its climax, the ubiquitous opening notes of a guaranteed crowd pleaser — "Work," by Rihanna, featuring Drake — vibrated through the room.
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They danced to popular contemporary songs — "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" was a crowd-pleaser — before switching to traditional Jewish dances like the hora.
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I also try to put myself in the head of any other diner: Is there something that's just going to be a crowd-pleaser?
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Here, the franchise leans on its charismatic stars (Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan), churning out another perfectly watchable crowd-pleaser.
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The selection in store can be a little overwhelming (though the ionized waters are a crowd pleaser), but staff members are all beauty experts.
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"Wonder Woman": Though somewhat of a longer shot, this rousing crowd pleaser and box office smash directed by Patty Jenkins was left empty-handed.
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Chinese food is a crowd-pleaser — whether we're out with friends and family or cuddled up on the couch with a couple of takeout containers.
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First posited in a 2014 XKCD webcomic that laid out the similarities between Cooper and the living meme, the theory was an instant crowd pleaser.
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He compared the EU to Hitler—a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, in short, from a party whose foundation was predicated on the abolishment of the Euro.
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The lobster spaghetti, featuring house-made pasta and a mix of claw and tail meat, still in the shell, is a pitch-perfect crowd pleaser.
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Geremy Jasper's debut feature follows her efforts to make it big — and is enough of a crowd-pleaser that you may rap along with her.
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He also made one moderately high budget ($48 million) crowd pleaser, "Tooth Fairy," starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, that was a minor hit ($112 million).
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The idea was to learn how to use genre as a tool and to show that he was capable of making something ambitious: a crowd-pleaser.
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The Theodore Melfi-directed crowd-pleaser follows three female, African-American NASA mathematicians who successfully aided the U.S. space program amid racial tensions in the 1960s.
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Crawford notes the "oohs and aahhhs" and obsessive picture-taking as proof that the structure, with all that lovingly installed imported stone, is a crowd pleaser.
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Ronaldo 'Jacare' Souza versus Vitor Belfort is the big Brazilian versus Brazilian crowd pleaser on the card, it is also one of the most compelling bouts.
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Russell Westbrook is a real crowd-pleaser ... 'cause the NBA star crashed a high school basketball tourney in New Orleans and had fans LOSING THEIR MINDS!!
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They said it can be tough to find a gift fit for a queen, but homemade gifts from their children are always a sure crowd-pleaser.
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Hernandez does not have the most difficult or powerful tumbling, Haney said, but her dance ability makes her a crowd pleaser on beam and floor exercise.
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"It's an easy crowd pleaser, and you can always infuse your own thing — take out the broccoli or add more corn to customize it," she says.
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This is a cake from renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi, so we can promise you this will be a crowd pleaser even with those with no gluten aversion.
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But it was Spicer's brash attitude, gum eating and tendency toward malapropism that made him—as impersonated by Melissa McCarthy— a crowd-pleaser on Saturday Night Live.
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"This decision is a crowd-pleaser, which will not help renters in the long-term," Managing Director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents David Cox said.
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Beto O'Rourke's sunniness promised to make him the field's crowd-pleaser, but he now could be diluted by Mayor Pete in competing as the fresh, new thing.
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One radical crowd-pleaser is Teresa Forcades, a Benedictine with a master's degree from Harvard who is on leave from her convent on Catalonia's Montserrat holy mountain.
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On the men's side, Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria beat Nick Kyrgios, the Australian crowd-pleaser, and advanced to the quarterfinals alongside Marin Cilic and Rafael Nadal, above.
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Ford v Ferrari is a classic crowd pleaser, a biographical film set in the 1960s about a real-life story that seems made for the big screen.
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He also loves his award-winning Greek loaf with lamb and feta and is known to surprise guests with the cheesy chorizo loaf, a decadent crowd pleaser.
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The new president (no relation to Ms Fernández) wants to be a crowd-pleaser as she was, at least for poor Argentines, but without repeating her mistakes.
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Attacking the media was a crowd pleaser at campaign rallies, and the undermining of professional journalists looks set to become a primary strategy under chief strategist Steve Bannon.
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The biggest crowd-pleaser on the menu is the "Snake in the Basket," a basket of Original wings with a surprise spicy chicken wing thrown into the mix.
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It's precessor's whole demon-possession thing might prove to be more of a crowd pleaser for fans of traditional horror tropes, but Midsommar captures something deeper about existence.
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Everyone has different tastes when it comes to what you should put on your wrist, but the crowd pleaser continues to be stainless steel watches with black dials.
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Some might even say it's a crowd-pleaser, which isn't a bad thing when it comes to the rich, lovelorn textures for which Wild Nothing is most known.
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The one-hander remains a sweeping thing of beauty, although anyone who remembers Marat Safin's world-class backhand knows the two-hander can also be a crowd pleaser.
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"My problem is really that I'm a crowd-pleaser," or so says the director, who has a new movie — and a new scandal — at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The gaudy Orientalism of another Puccini crowd-pleaser, "Turandot," set in an imaginary ancient China and featuring three ministers named Ping, Pang and Pong, has also been criticized.
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Crowd-pleaser "Bohemian Rhapsody" was nominated for five awards, including Egyptian-American Rami Malek for his role as Queen front man Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991.
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This DJI Mavic and Goggles gift combo can really be a crowd-pleaser this year, so give the gift of exploration and tech to someone special in your life.
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McCarthy is a crowd-pleaser — The Boss is her third #1 opening to date — though a dismal critical reception won't do her any favors in the weeks to come.
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If SNES Classic, with its preloaded games library and user-friendly save states, is a crowd-pleaser, Super Nt is aimed more at the authenticity-means-everything hipster gamer.
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Later, a pretty piano chord progression, a potential crowd pleaser, appears and gets quickly discarded too, as does another big beat, all in favor of more plinks and hums.
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Available on: PlayStation 4 Pro The Martian The Matt Damon-starring crowd-pleaser about an astronaut making the best of a really, really bad situation looks astonishing in 4K.
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Animal-like, four-legged robots have been a crowd-pleaser since Boston Dynamics' BigDog, and Stanford's Doggo shows how the technology can be made open source, accessible and educational.
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Featuring bold blackberry and blueberry flavors and medium-firm tannins on the finish, this wine is a true crowd-pleaser — robust, dependable and easy to love, much like Maggie herself.
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Swae Lee might be a real crowd pleaser onstage, but he ain't no water bottle thrower -- which is why he says he's countersuing the guy accusing him of just that.
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He opened his set with a longtime crowd-pleaser, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," though it had more grievance in it than the droll original, along with some changed lyrics.
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Political theory isn't exactly a crowd-pleaser on the campaign trail, but you need some of it to understand why "democratic socialism" means so many things to so many people.
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But the most cultural song here is the staying-alive crowd-pleaser "Celebrate," where the operative metaphor is "fixin' up the tree"—the endangered family tree he husbands belatedly throughout.
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THE BIG SICK Easily the breakout of Sundance, this mammoth crowd-pleaser finds the married screenwriters Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani mining their own scary life experience for comedy.
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The men's hurdles race should be another crowd pleaser with American Devon Allen (13.37 seconds), Jamaican Commonwealth Games silver medalist Hansle Parchment (13.42) and Canadian Johnathan Cabral (13.43) the top qualifiers.
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Finally, drones will be almost certainly be buzzing onstage and around the show as entertainment, a robotic crowd-pleaser that never fails to lend a futuristic edge to the CES madness.
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The streaming service is fielding a strong slate this season that includes Scorsese's drama as well as "The Two Popes," a crowd-pleaser that gives you exactly what the title implies.
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That plot is a reliable crowd-pleaser, but what sets "You've Got Mail" apart is its contemporary references, making it a surprisingly accurate portrait of American life in the late 1990s.
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A crowd-pleaser by writer–director Hsieh Pei-ju, the romantic comedy belies its light humor and sunlit cinematography by touching on darker themes such as body image issues and eating disorders.
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The hilarious trio laughed the whole way through each step of making the recipe, but the focaccia that had been pre-made to show the finished product was not a crowd pleaser.
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Like the circus at its center, The Greatest Showman feels, at the very least, like a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, particularly at a time when the uncomplicated joy of escapist entertainment is essential.
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The man in the red corner even turned crowd-pleaser in the second — dropping his guard and showboating, with the odd feint thrown in — before Oumiha came back stronger in the third.
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Pancakes are an obvious Christmas morning crowd-pleaser, but the ricotta here will allow you to quietly break with tradition and repeat "Yes, the secret is the ricotta!" to astonished family members.
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LATE NIGHT In this Sundance crowd-pleaser, Mindy Kaling breaks into the all-male writer's room of a struggling late-night show, whose host (Emma Thompson) is "Devil Wears Prada"-level demanding.
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Awards: Sound Editing, Film Editing Ford v Ferrari is a classic crowd pleaser, a biographical film set in the 24s about a real-life story that seems made for the big screen.
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For meat-eaters, there is a crowd pleaser of a chicken dish, too, and there's no reason you couldn't add a bit of bacon or sausage to the white beans or pasta.
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From Giambattista Valli, who sent a dozen of them down his spring 2019 couture runway, to Jean Paul Gaultier, Schiaparelli, and others, it seems a monstrous tulle number is the ultimate crowd pleaser.
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The complicated-looking plait (which, spoiler alert, is much easier than it looks) is a little more interesting than your typical three-strand number — and its alluring dimension is a real crowd pleaser.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SAN FRANCISCO — James Tissot: Fashion & Faith at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco is a crowd pleaser with — as the title implies — something for everyone.
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Accusing the news media of bias has been a political tactic for decades, and a sure crowd-pleaser, with plenty of Mr. Trump's fellow candidates quick with similar put-downs during the primaries.
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Six years and innumerable hired-and-fired screenwriters later came Alien 3, a bleak meditation on death and nihilism that couldn't be much further from Cameron's souped-up crowd-pleaser if it tried.
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" Mr. Yevtushenko, still the crowd-pleaser in a brown silk suit, closed the evening by reading a poem called "Sixties Generation": "We were a fad for some, some we offended with our fame.
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One way to answer that question is by going back to the original, 1984 Ghostbusters, which, in addition to being a massively successful crowd-pleaser, was also a thoroughly and transparently political film.
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The Super Mario Run announcement and appearance of Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto was a crowd-pleaser, but nothing Apple did in regards to its hardware or software this go-around made it possible.
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The other races are a bit more iffy, but the favorites are Brie Larson ("Room") for best actress and, in what would surely be a crowd-pleaser, Sylvester Stallone ("Creed") for best supporting actor.
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Often funny and profoundly moving, The Farewell is the best kind of crowd-pleaser, with something subtle but meaningful to say about how far families will go to avoid telling each other the truth.
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PIKACHU & ASH — POKÉMON With all the hype surrounding this year's release of Pokémon Go, slipping into a yellow ensemble à la Pikachu or blue jacket à la Ash Ketchum is a certified crowd pleaser.
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Working against it: Though the film has drawn huge audiences, it's no one's idea of a conventional crowd-pleaser, and it could hit a wall with Oscar voters who reject its downbeat, violent vibe.
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This is more a wild and noble experiment than a slam-dunk crowd-pleaser, but it is unlike anything I've ever seen on TV. Monty Python (Multiple Titles) When to watch: Now, on Netflix.
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Being an easy crowd-pleaser, it suggests — like instant coffee — that one can get the same experience in less time, for who wouldn't choose looking at a picture over reading columns of obscure lines?
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Lam may have a reputation as being humorless and not much of a crowd-pleaser, but her supporters liked to laud her for getting things done and not being afraid to crack the whip.
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Get Out was the rare crowd-pleaser that enjoyed tremendous critical acclaim, a viral meme factory that also received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and yielded Peele the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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Nonetheless, Wonder Woman has also proven to be a crowd pleaser (an A on CinemaScore, 76 percent on Metacritic) compared to both DC films (B+ and B on CinemaScore, 40 and 23 percent on Metacritic).
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With ambient bird chirps streaming throughout, the collective's exhibit is an instant crowd-pleaser with its colorful digital designs and authentic botanical species, teamLab once again brings technology and the natural world into one space.
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Brazil's deep well of volleyball talent and home court advantage make its women's and men's teams favorites to win gold at the Rio Games, where fervent fans should make the sport a big crowd-pleaser.
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This is a truly luxurious appetizer that would feel right at home on a holiday table, but would probably be just as much of a crowd pleaser as a finger food for your next party.
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Superhero movies tend to take one of two approaches to bringing in a huge audience: Either make a big, flashy, risk-free crowd-pleaser (often the Marvel tactic), or a brooding, moody, "gritty" reboot (more DC territory).
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The Museum of Modern Art owns only three paintings by Vincent van Gogh, but they include its biggest crowd-pleaser: "The Starry Night," which the Dutchman completed in 1889, shortly after having checked into a psychiatric hospital.
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Plus, Star Wars movies are the ultimate crowd pleaser — uncontroversial tales of good and evil with epic lightsaber and space duels that should entertain the entire family without too much of a fight over what to watch.
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It's often a very funny movie, with undeniably great performances, but I didn't think it was as good as McDonagh's earlier films (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths), and it didn't strike me as a "crowd pleaser" at the time.
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The musical's garish midcentury styling and peppy Motown-influenced soundtrack makes it a crowd-pleaser, as does the character of Edna Turnblad, Tracy's mother, who has been played by the likes of Divine, Harvey Fierstein and John Travolta.
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Beyond the top-10 spots, superhero-related porn as a category seems to have remained a crowd-pleaser, with characters like Captain America, Batgirl, and Black Widow also proving to be popular in the two months before Halloween.
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I'm just torn about what flavor Dash button I'll get—I'm kind of an original purist but Ranch is a crowd pleaser and you don't want your teammates to get too pissed at you if you strike out.
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Hulu's original programming up to this point hasn't been bad, per se — shows like "Difficult People" and "Casual" have caught the attention of critics, and "The Mindy Project" is a crowd-pleaser that left Fox for Hulu recently.
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The Sundance crowd-pleaser centers on a young magician who reluctantly uses his skills to deal drugs – and then, when he finds himself in too deep, uses those same skills to pull him back out of that world.
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The choice to do "Don Quixote," a crowd-pleaser, raises questions about the identity of the company, which was founded in 1963 by Barbara Weisberger, a protégée of George Balanchine, and which is still known for dancing Balanchine.
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"Mac n' Cheetos are the ultimate 'triple threat' with the combination of crispy Cheetos, the Burger King brand, and ultimate crowd pleaser, mac n' cheese," Alex Macedo, President, North America, for the Burger King brand said in a statement.
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Every song was a crowd-pleaser for the Miley-philes gathered – some of whom had flown in from as far away as Miami and Detroit for the event – but a selection of early hits drew the most deafening cheers.
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The rapper went off on the Republican front-runner as soon as he caught wind of Trump's rally in Milwaukee Monday night where he was introduced with Everlast's crowd pleaser blaring on the PA system for about 30 seconds.
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It wasn't a surprise to us that BaubleBar's best-selling Alidia Ring was such a crowd-pleaser — the rainbow-flecked stacker is a unicorn, a rare colorful piece that seems to go with everything, despite its symphony of tones.
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"Knives in Hens" is never going to be a crowd-pleaser, and I noted more empty seats than is the norm at this address, but Ms. Farber's work here cuts to the quick; the directorial knife is razor-sharp.
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Here, Chef Jenny McCoy of ICE's School of Pastry & Baking Arts shares with PEOPLE her recipe for summer fruit clafoutis — a crowd-pleaser of a dessert that highlights the season's best produce and is as tasty as it is simple.
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"Mac n' Cheetos are the ultimate 'triple threat' with the combination of Cheetos flavor, the Burger King brand, and the ultimate crowd pleaser, mac n' cheese," Alex Macedo, president of the Burger King brand North America, said in a statement.
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With Ms. Gilbert, whom Mr. Hellerman knew from their days as counselors at the leftist Camp Wo-Chi-Ca in northern New Jersey, they came up with a medley of international folk songs that turned out to be a crowd pleaser.
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It's such a crowd-pleaser that when Donald Trump, the chief agitator of 2016, got very different reactions when he hit Jeb Bush for his support of Common Core and his stance on immigration at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire.
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TLC in 2017 are known more for their big singles—"No Scrubs" a dancefloor crowd pleaser at your shite uni club nights, "Waterfalls" soundtracking the drunken pub singing of a group of women in their late thirties—than their album tracks.
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The performance ended with Swift and Urie (wearing a rainbow-splattered suit much like the one from the video) hanging from an umbrella over the crowd, and it definitely seemed like a crowd pleaser that captured how fun Swift's video really was.
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Arrival is the definition of a crowd-pleaser: optimistic about humanity, creative about portraying alien spaceships, semi-interested in romance, and full of brain-bending plot twists your younger brother can feel free to declare "[eyeroll] so obvious" while secretly being impressed.
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The film, based on the New York Times best-selling book, is certain to pull on your heartstrings, and there's a world in which this possible crowd-pleaser follows in the footsteps of 2009's surprise Best Picture nominee The Blind Side. —J.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The corporate "caravan" that motors across valleys and mountains ahead of the cyclists competing in the Tour de France has been a crowd-pleaser for decades, but ecologists want organizers to put an end to the avalanche of plastic it generates.
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My explanation for why Hawaiian poke — diced raw tuna with seasonings and an Asian-accented dressing — has become such a crowd-pleaser here is that it amounts to a cheaper, simpler version of tuna tartare, a popular starter on a thousand menus.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crowd-pleaser Coco Gauff came through a tough battle with qualifier Timea Babos 6-2 4-6 6-4 on Thursday to set up a third-round clash at the U.S. Open against top seed and defending champion Naomi Osaka.
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Turning Adolf Hitler into a little boy's imaginary friend sounds like an unworkable conceit, but Taika Waititi's nervy crowd-pleaser treats Der Führer as a Beatles-like phenomenon that whipped young people like Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) into a nationalist frenzy.
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So they made it fast with eternal crowd-pleaser "Not Fade Away," Harrelson still on the mic, the vocal refrain of which the small but feisty gathering grabbed up and carried on long after the band waved their goodbyes and left the stage.
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It's a crowd pleaser with a lot of potential: It's shot in English, is full of music and Ugandan culture, boasts two big Hollywood stars (12 Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Selma's David Oyelowo), and has a major studio behind it (Disney).
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In his live performance, he soared through excerpts of five classics and latest single, "Ask Me How I Know," before settling on the ultimate crowd-pleaser, "Friends in Low Places," which didn't require him to sing a note since the entire crowd knew every word.
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When I heard the song "Old Town Road" for our tango, it was literally the last song I had ever expected to hear, but I was really excited because I know that it's a crowd-pleaser and that a lot of people love the song.
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Ms. Streep will get most of the attention accorded this film, a Stephen Frears crowd-pleaser about a real-life figure, "thanks to a performance that may single-handedly set off a boom in the earplug industry," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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The German "Toni Erdmann," from the director Maren Ade, has demonstrated rare potential as both a critics' darling and a proven crowd-pleaser with its imaginative story about a frustrated young professional coming to grips with her life and her crazy-like-a-fox father.
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The Maya Mountain, striking for its hints of pineapple and vanilla, has been such a crowd-pleaser that it was sold out for weeks, while the Chuao, named for a rare Venezuelan bean, melted on my tongue before finishing with a delightful zing. plaqchocolat.fr.
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It was well-acted (both Hopkins and Jodie Foster won Oscars), well-directed (Jonathan Demme won Best Director), well-written (Ted Tally got an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay) and overall well-done (it beat out even crowd-pleaser Beauty and the Beast for Best Picture).
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The contradictions continue: Now this champion of fastidious French tradition is returning to the United States in a partnership with Stephen Starr, the protean Philadelphia-based restaurateur who has the reputation, fair or not, of being more a blockbuster crowd-pleaser than a mentor to culinary brainiacs.
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But for its inaugural exhibitions, Poster House has chosen a safe crowd-pleaser; Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme, which sprawls over two of the museum's galleries, is dedicated to the legacy of Art Nouveau poster designer Alphonse Mucha — arguably the most famous poster designer in history.
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"Green Book" came into Toronto amid low expectations and emerged a ferocious crowd-pleaser: A racial-issues dramedy in the vein of "The Blind Side" and "Hidden Figures," the film stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali as mismatched personalities on a road trip through the Deep South.
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JAMES R. OESTREICH AT 44 MINUTES 14 SECONDS Kirill Gerstein, performing at the Mostly Mozart festival this week, followed Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor with a brief encore: not a showy crowd-pleaser, but the lovely second movement of Clara Schumann's Concerto in A minor.
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Crossing ballet with modern dance, as Tetley was lauded and vilified for doing, seems less of a feat these days than the juxtaposition of ballet and boogie that Mr. Garland attempts in his "Return," a 1999 piece that has become the company's go-to crowd pleaser.
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As the largest of the four ski areas owned by Aspen Skiing Company, Snowmass has always been the crowd-pleaser in terms of terrain among the portfolio, which includes Aspen Mountain in the town of Aspen, 9 miles away, and, between them, Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk.
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And in today's global film marketplace, whether it's good or not has little bearing on whether or not it will make a lot of money (cough Warcraft cough); an international crowd-pleaser of a franchise that works in China is almost guaranteed to stomp its way into the black.
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The most popular chicken menu item is the original chicken sandwich, but it's not the meat or the bun that makes it a crowd-pleaser, says Fittipaldi: "The secret ingredient is the seasoning," a recipe that is locked in a vault at Chick-fil-A's headquarters in Atlanta.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Miniature remote controlled cars have proved to be a crowd pleaser at track and field throwing events, but for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Toyota Motor Corp is upping the game with a hi-tech way to fetch javelins and hammers: pint-sized, self-driving A.I. robot cars.
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And in making the choice to adapt a popular internet fable for its first scripted horror series in a while, it seems the network is casting its net wide, opting for horror dark enough to please true fans while banking on a story that's a known crowd-pleaser.
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Finishing with "Bellhead," a cowbell-heavy classic club track by Liquid Liquid, helps make "Ounce of Faith" a crowd-pleaser — the audience on Wednesday expressed its pleasure enthusiastically — yet it remains artistically indistinct, the essay of a student who has carefully studied better works in the Ailey repertory.
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Accompanied only by his own guitar, he soared through snippets of five classics and new single, "Ask Me How I Know," before settling on the ultimate crowd-pleaser "Friends in Low Places," which wouldn't have required him to sing a note since the entire audience demonstrated they knew every word.
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That notion has been seared into Democrats' 2020 strategies: virtually every candidate vying for the Democratic nomination has denounced the role of corporate money in politics; campaign rhetoric is rife with tales of blue-collar upbringings and life experiences; and talking about corporate greed has become a crowd-pleaser at rallies.
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In the end, the program resorted to the ultimate crowd-pleaser — in the parlance of fan fiction, "shipping" — with a pas de deux from Angelin Preljocaj's 1994 ballet "Le Parc," in which the ballerina clasps her partner's neck and is spun, mid-kiss, until her feet fly into the air.
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But the most commercially successful movie of the year, a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, is streaming right now — and, well, if you really think about it, the "Avengers" movies have always concerned the difficulty of getting a group of clashing personalities together in one place, in pursuit of a common good.
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If you're looking for an alternative to boring old roasted turkey, want to impress the girl you're bringing home for the first time, or just need to use up leftovers, these balls of savory turkey and fragrant herbs—braised in beer and deep fried to crispy perfection—are a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.
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" On a recent visit to Stratford, I saw five Shakespeare plays; a superlative "All My Sons" featuring intriguing new undercurrents supplied by the biracial casting; the North American premiere of the stage version of "Shakespeare in Love," an ebullient crowd-pleaser; and two musicals, "A Little Night Music" and "A Chorus Line.
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Clearly, "Green Book" has experienced a roller-coaster ride in terms of its Academy Award prospects, from being dubbed a "ferocious crowd-pleaser" by the New York Times coming out of Toronto to the wave of negative press to honors from the National Board of Review, the American Film Institute and now the Golden Globes.
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While a timepiece that once belonged to the king of rock 'n' roll is guaranteed to be a high-profile crowd pleaser, whether you love watches or not, the other is an insider's watch: a steel timepiece that is appealing because the prestigious but lower-profile maker that created it does not usually use steel.
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While the best picture field may still include intimate entries like "Roma," a black-and-white foreign-language film directed by Alfonso Cuarón (who won best director in 2014 for "Gravity"), you can also count on it to make room for "A Star Is Born," a big-studio crowd-pleaser starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga as singing megastars.
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Yet while every club track cannot—and should not—be a chunky crowd pleaser like "One More Time," there's just something inherently fascinating about the potential in the boundary-crossing spirit of the record, of the filter-house French underground rising primed and activated out of the earth into pop music like some past alien civilisation's buried iron giant.
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Pizza tends to be a crowd pleaser, and Aumm Aumm's superb Neapolitan-style pies, made with mostly fresh or imported ingredients and baked for just 90 seconds in a wood-burning oven, have kept the crowds coming ever since Massimo Delle Donne, a longtime food importer, encouraged his wife, Paula, to open the restaurant last November with their friend Davide Profeti.
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Even with all the parachuting out of planes and blowing up of buildings and pounding artillery, and even with Kenneth "Rock" Merritt, 94, who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and joined more than 100 other storied veterans of the division who marched by reviewing stands as the crowd watched tearfully, the 82nd still had one more crowd-pleaser ready to display.
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Opposite this, the Morellet has teased up a few neon plumes into a tower of blue light, which here expresses a spiritual yearning to contrast with the earthy triple X. It is true that the material speaks to both the body and the soul; neon is a crowd pleaser and this show has something of the good cheer of the Blackpool seafront about it.
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His track record shows that a director with a distinctive style who's given leeway by the studio to deviate from the norm can make a crowd-pleaser that brings in the big bucks at the box office and also lands critical accolades — whether it's by reimagining comic book movies as political commentary (in the Dark Knight trilogy), sci-fi as quasi-post-apocalyptic family drama (Interstellar), or detective noir as psychological drama (Insomnia, Memento).
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