Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerged from the cell. "I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned, and who has my complete trust." As John Paul rose to leave, the two men shook hands. The Pope gave Agca, who will turn 26 next week, a small gift in a white box, a rosary in silver and mother-of-pearl. The Pope walked out. Agca was left standing alone, and the camera recorded a sudden look of uncertainty on his face. Perhaps he was thinking about the prospect of spending the rest of his life in jail for attempting to kill...
Realizing that many people treat their dogs and cats like children, Cynthia Grey, 34, a Hollywood entrepreneur, came up with what she considers a perfect present for the pampered pet. She packaged ordinary dog and cat biscuits in sampler boxes covered with silver foil to resemble assortments of exquisite chocolates. The names for the products: Dogiva and Cativa. Grey sent samples last spring to such departent-store chains as Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, which quickly decided that the bonbon biscuits would make excellent Christmas gifts at about $10 a box. Grey, a former Playboy bunny and wife...
Queuing for hours in the subfreezing cold to buy a pair of hard-to-get tickets may have once been a mark of theatergoing dedication. But increasingly, it is merely a sign that you are behind the times. The old-fashioned box office has, by and large, gone the way of the pinball machine and the flesh-and-blood bank teller: computers have moved in. Today ordering tickets for everything from Broadway shows to a Styx concert often requires nothing more arduous than picking up the phone and reading numbers off a credit card...
...Computer-ticket competition heated up in New York City this fall when Ticket World, a reservation service operating in Detroit, moved into the New York market. It has computerized the box offices of several Broadway shows, and is linking them to more than 70 area locations. And the nation's largest chain of legitimate theaters, the Shubert Organization, has just installed a ticket-by-phone service for all 16 of its Broadway houses, and is extending it to such cities as Boston and Chicago as well...
Saddest Alien: E.T., who found that being box-office champ could not keep him (and his creator Steven Spielberg) from getting trampled in the Oscar race by Gandhi...