Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Improvement will take time -- and money. Opera is fundamentally a money- losing proposition, requiring heavy fund raising each year. Even though the company plays to 96% of capacity, box-office revenues account for only 45% of operating income. Thus Mansouri faces a precarious balancing act: while he needs to take bold new artistic steps to regain the company's pride of place, he must also mind the box-office receipts and keep the paying customers in the seats...
...each strobing scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk at the delirious decor...
With just 7:45 remaining in the second overtime period, Captain Amy Winston passed the ball back to the top of the box where Weinstock fired a shot into the corner for her first collegiate goal...
...start of the second half, UNH midfielder Cheryl Bergeron sent a ball to forward Diane McLoughlin at the top of the Harvard box. McLoughlin--New Hampshire's leading scorer--controlled and quickly fired a shot over Harvard goaltender Liz Wald for the only score of the game...
...antiterrorist Special Air Services regiment. The inquest is expected to last a month and hear testimony from more than 70 witnesses, including seven SAS members who were involved in the killings. The seven, identified only as Soldiers A through G, will testify from behind a curtain in the witness box, within sight of only the coroner, lawyers and an eleven-member jury...