"I went in expecting to see a sullen crowd, and what I saw instead was clearly a rock concert."

A sullen crowd filled the square, unwashed bodies whose stench reached him even here, three floors up.

Policemen carrying riot helmets and gas masks monitored the sullen crowd.

Still grinning, he eyed the sullen crowd.

But instead of sullen crowds waiting for fiery oratory, there were only frigid, rain-drenched, nearly deserted streets on Tuesday.

One member of the mostly sullen crowd of 40,232 screamed out, "What's wrong with you guys?"

Angry, sullen crowds assembled in the streets.

By day, he was greeted with sparse, sullen crowds.

The remaining Chaschmen and Chaschwomen, throwing aside their false crania, gathered in a sullen crowd on the main avenue.

"Her relatives will kill her if they find her," Ms. Hussain said as she left the sullen crowd.