Word: concert
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...costly kiosks? According to Justin Harmon, director of commmunications and publications at Princeton, their kiosk is part of a multi-million dollar renovation of Alexander Hall, the main campus concert facility, and the adjacent Stockton Court plaza. The redesigned entrance area will eliminate traffic congestion and give visitors "a sense of place," he said...
...film is at its best in showing the effect John's celebrity had on both him and his fans. A scene from the early years of Beatlemania shows young girls melting into quivering puddles at a Beatles concert. During the "bigger than Jesus" brouhaha that lost the Beatles so many fans in the South, a girl says with unwitting prescience, "Some teenagers are gonna believe anything they say." As John comes to realize that he can indeed use his celebrity as a soapbox, he appears more self-conscious, winking and mugging at the ubiquitous cameras...
...there was a dark side to his fame. The film shows girls who had been reduced to jelly at a Beatles concert aggressively piling on top of the band's limousine after the show. John tries in vain to explain to a hippie who has invaded his country estate that he didn't mean for his visitor to respond to his songs in such a personal way. "I was just playing with words," he says. The scene is a chilling premonition of John's final encounter with the fan who would kill him, an event depicted in Imagine...
...honor of the planetarium's birthday, Boston and Cambridge proclaimed October "Celebrate the Universe" month. Commemorative events set for the next few weeks include a telescope open house, a lecture by NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox and a concert of New Age music...
While the leaders and managers of this organization are not financial wizards, I certainly do not think, considering the facts, they are deserving of the dishonest implications of your article. Perhaps if your paper would spend a little more time covering the Bach Society's concerts, and the music ensembles in general, as much as you do theater and other arts on campus, the group's concert revenues would be more sufficiently substantive to cover the expenses for their season and not be subject to the sensationalistic reporting of your publication. Scott C. Gregg '88 Music Director, Bach Society Orchestra...