Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when violence and sex are the dual sellers at the box office, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang looks better than it is simply because...
Tall Bystanders. Monroe, a spectacular player, provides just the right amount of razzmatazz to perk up the team-and the box office. So far, home attendance is up 38,000 over last season. Though tiny (6 ft. 3½ in.) for the N.B.A., Monroe is a jitterbug on the court, feinting four ways as he goes a fifth-and his defender heads off in a sixth direction. Explains Monroe: "The thing is, I don't know what I'm going to do with the ball, and if I don't know, I'm quite sure...
...Box. Cowed by such a campaign, the FCC felt that all it could do was authorize a few experimental fee-vee operations. And none was on a large enough scale to test either the hopes or the fears of the contending interests. A pilot system was franchised in Denver but never got on the air. A Bartlesville, Okla., project lasted nine months. Other projects were quickly aborted in New York City and Chicago. Fee-vee's most promising and disheartening trial came in Los Angeles. Just as the operation seemed to be catching on, the broadcasters and film exhibitors...
...screen looks like a shattered mirror, and the audio twitters like a rewinding tape recorder. Subscribers interested in the show dial a code number on an un scrambling device perched atop their set. Automatically, the picture and sound come in clear and loud, and a tape inside the decoding box totes up a charge of 50? to $1.50 a show. Every month, the tape is pulled out of the box as a statement. There is also a service charge of $3.25 a month...
Sugar Plum Fairy, a is Warhol's first attempt to turn a trade book into a pop artifact. Described as his first novel, it is a package whose surface looks pretty much like any other book-in the same way that one of his Brillo boxes resembles a Brillo box on a grocery shelf. The contents, however, turn out to be an unedited transcript of 24 hours worth of drug-induced schizophrenic chatter tape-recorded by Warhol while following his friends around...