Word: concertedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Interior could stoke a crowd with writhing and pogo-ing that made Iggy Pop look like a folksinger, and when he opened his mouth to deadpan songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," he could make the crowd laugh too. Perhaps the Cramps' most perfect performance was a 1978 concert at the Napa State Mental Hospital in California. "Somebody told me you people are crazy," Lux screamed from the stage, "but I'm not so sure about that...
...Ticketmaster sold more than 140 million tickets and industry experts estimate the company controls 70 % of the market for major concerts. If it merges with Live Nation, that share would increase substantially. The companies announced the terms of their merger Feb. 10, but the deal will have to be approved by government antitrust authorities. New York Senator Charles Schumer, who's on the Judiciary Committee, has already come out against the merger, signaling an uphill battle for further consolidation of the concert business. Eddie Vedder may yet get his revenge after...
...Obama’s inaugural address in person can never be taken away from me. The experience was epic, emotional, and quintessentially American. But I learned something else that Tuesday–about why the market needs to be regulated and why you need barriers at a Girl Talk concert. People may be honorable individually or in small groups, but without stern and threatening enforcement, you just can’t trust a mob. By failing to present more than a sparse, disorganized police force, the committee planning this inauguration put far too much faith in the goodwill of this...
...trip of glimpses. We climbed on each others’ toes to glimpse Beyoncé through binoculars at the Lincoln Memorial We Are One concert. We glimpsed Obama’s official portrait in the packed lobby of the National Portrait Gallery. We glimpsed Bush’s helicopter fly over the crowd as he departed from the District. We glimpsed the greatest political leaders in America over the tops of people’s hats on a screen at the Mall. But the most exciting glimpse of all happened the night before the inauguration, when Mariah...
...were held up by police at a corner, and while we bounced on our toes impatiently, a motorcade turned past us. Inside a black Escalade sat the new first family. They waved. We waved. And as the car drove onwards, bound for the Miley Cyrus concert, everyone on the corner hugged each other in shock, laughing and crying and screaming, “I can’t believe...