Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weiner, who worked on an off-Broadway show last summer, said he had learned that people involved in the theater are constantly trying to attract new audiences. He said "The Gang's New Threads" had promise because it could make rap and theater accessible to "a different kind of audience...
There are drawbacks. Negative ads can muddy a perpetrator's positive image. Such ads can repel as easily as they entice, driving away voters they were meant to attract. Dueling commercials between two candidates, says Mellman, can propel voters into the arms of a third. Negative ads during a primary, Squier notes, are dicier than similar ads during the general election; sniping at party comrades is never an ennobling sight...
...great threat is that the redevelopers, because they are spending so much money and seeking to attract blue-chip office tenants in a soon-to-be-glutted market, will make this motley, redolent crossroads orderly and decorous -- that they will make Times Square square. New York City planners, to their credit, have during the past year made an attempt to enforce preservation of some of the area's glittery, hodgepodge character. Today Times Square has 29 "supersigns" composed of 200 miles of neon. The latest rules require that large, bright, animated versions be included on new buildings. A planned Holiday...
...likely" by 42% to 25%. Among all registered voters, the split is more negative, 46% to 19%. Yet Robertson can still be an important political player in some states. He has shown a great talent for squeezing the maximum turnout from his pool of sympathizers. Robertson also hopes to attract socially conservative Democrats who think all their national candidates are too liberal...
...luge and bobsled seem to attract the largest number of Olympic eccentrics, many of whom have found the open-minded governing bylaw about nationality conveniently accommodating. For New Yorker George Tucker, a physicist born in Puerto Rico, Calgary actually offered a chance to improve. At his Sarajevo debut in 1984, Tucker shed alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction...