The fans are certainly buying in: they filled the Coliseum with its first opening night sellout in four years, many arriving three hours before game time to tailgate in the parking lot and partake in outdoor festivities that included a live band along with assorted games and contests.

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Mr. Hurt's capacity for silence, alas, was not matched by that of the opening-night audience, which filled too many of his long pauses with unwelcome coughs.

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The opening paragraph is exemplary too: Lorimer finds a hanged man in a torched factory filled with plastic mannequins (little men).

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