Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is familiar. It is urban folklore. But flamenco puts you in a different world. People who expect castanets might be disappointed." If first-week audiences are any indication, however, they will not be, and word of mouth is already causing a toe-tapping, heel-stamping queue at the box office...
...past several years, The Crimson's football staff has been engaged in a game prediction contest which appears every football Saturday (see box, below). And in this, the seventh week of the season, Bob Cunha's three-game lead over me may be insurmountable...
...friends who are white males, or children who are young whites, is incapable of simply dismissing these groups of people as potential criminals. But when blacks never enter one's circle of intimate relations, it's much easier to deny their individuality, to place them in the stereotypical box of potential muggers and murderers...
...known as BAM, has become a national showcase for avant-garde work; its president, Harvey Lichtenstein, is the movement's Sol Hurok. When Lichtenstein courageously produced Wilson's The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud in 1969, few thought Wilson's glacially paced musings would be the stuff of box-office success. But when Glass's opera about the early life of Gandhi, Satyagraha, unexpectedly sold out in the fall of 1981, it was time to think again...
...film has no box-office stars, no sex appeal and no traditional production values. It is photographed in hues that look like a dishware party -- color by Tupperware -- and its biggest scene is a talent contest that concludes a sesquicentennial Celebration of Specialness in the mythical town of Virgil, Texas (pop. 40,000 and growing). Kind of a downtown Our Town, you might say, full of high boho spirits and jokey asides that illuminate with fondness as often as they satirize without malice. But do not doubt it for a second: True Stories is the most joyous and inventive rock...