Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show itself, aired on ABC-TV, won the ratings sweepstakes over NBC's Bonanza and CBS's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. More important, as Cohen happily pointed out, "virtually every play in town reported a healthy spurt at the box office." Daily ticket sales for The Homecoming, produced by Cohen, which averaged $3,500 since the play opened three months ago, reached $10,000 the day after the Tony awards...
Romero looks at the Argentine political game with the eyes of an old player who has been put in the penalty box for eternity. He feels the heat of the competition and the flush of frustration, but he can do no more than give a running commentary on the progress of play...
...controllers, they themselves have found that alpha numerics poses a few problems of its own. To feed information about a flight into the radarscope and attach that information to the appropriate blip, for example, the controller must turn away from the screen to punch buttons on a computer input box, leaving his flights unattended for several vital seconds. In addition, as the alphanumeric data blocks move with their appropriate blips across the screen, they occasionally merge with data blocks from other flights, making both sets of data illegible. During heavy traffic, when the screen is crowded with blips and data...
Renewal. Urban sprawl. Relocation. High rise v. low rise. Blighted areas. Glass-box buildings. Open space. Population density...
...Louise Nevelson has at last arrived in the art world. Eighteen museums now own her sculptures. In the decade since collectors first began to be entranced with her mysterious box-sculptures, the price of her work has escalated. Smaller pieces, which sold for $1,000 each five to ten years ago, now go for up to $6,000, and several museums have paid more than $45,000 for her huge wall sculptures. Nevelson herself, a big-hatted, cigar-smoking metaphysic on the order of Edith Sitwell or Isak Dinesen, is pleased but not entirely surprised by her acclaim. After...