Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk about boffo box office. Now showing in 2,327 theaters in the U.S., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the biggest-opening blockbuster of all time. The third in the series of cliff-hanging tales directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Crusade has been breaking records since it made its debut May 24. The film accounted for more than half of all the movie tickets sold in the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend. Fans paid $11.2 million to see it on May 27 alone, the biggest one-day take ever scored by a movie, and shelled...
What do the creators of these works, the majority of whom live in New York, gain by going out of town? Time to nurture a show while insulated from panic- inducing box-office pressures, and solid artistic collaboration. Increasingly, regional artistic directors have some background of commercial success, while the standards of acting and design generally measure up to those off, and indeed on, Broadway. Just as important, the ticket buyers are receptive and discerning...
...referendum proposed by the Students' Alliance For Fairness is postponed after 144 extra ballots turn up in the ballot box, invalidating the vote...
After the first of two laps in the final race, Rainey was boxed in by several runners. It wasn't until the last 200 meters that she was able to capitalize on her excellent kick to break through the box, passing USC's Michelle Taylor and Edith Nakiyingi of Iowa State down the final stretch...
...first night at Harvard, after meeting my roommates and drinking far too much beer, I threw a cardboard box, on which I had written "Derek Bok Sucks," out of my fourth floor Holworthy window. My roommates, who had heard only good things about our president, were shocked...