Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public does not defray the costs in full at the box office, obviously the difference can be made up only through private philanthropy or Government grants. Figuring the iron law of live performance v. technology, the authors predict that even Broadway faces "grim" times without some sort of help. For the rest of the performing arts, adds the report, direct and vastly increased subsidization is essential...
...high school dropouts and stay-ins alike, pile in by the thousands to writhe to the electronic thunder of the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane and the New Generation in such clubs as It's Boss (formerly Giro's), The Trip (once the Crescendo) and Pandora's Box. Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque and for trying on the newest fads, from pressed-straight blond hair...
...though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same box office results. Kelly was dumfounded. "The response was so bad," he recalls, "that the only possible thing to do was go right ahead and plan a second season before anybody could stop...
...wing commander plotting an air strike, he holed up with a map of the U.S. and a compass to zero in on a likely site. He began by eliminating those cities that already had a company as well as those towns whose proximity would mean strong competition at the box office. Detroit was out because it was too close to Chicago and the climate was not to Kelly's liking; Pittsburgh was no good because, in his estimation, it was not culturally ready. Suddenly, there it was: Dallas-hot climate, lots of loose money floating around, an unquenchable cultural...
...first general election since the army toppled President Joao Goulart almost three years ago, and Brazilians took their voting seriously. There were the usual murders in various election brawls. In some remote western areas, voters traveled 19 days in order to reach the nearest ballot box. As the votes came in last week, they pointed toward a resounding sweep for the government's ARENA Party...