Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While most undergraduates will be able to attend several of the events planned for the six-day celebration, including a black-tie ball and a bandstand concert, the principal organizer of the event, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, said it was simply impossible, logistically and financially, to include everyone in all events...
...what constellation. Giving her first public singing performance in six years, Barbra Streisand opened her Malibu ranch to the wallets of Jack Nicholson, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and some 500 others who shelled out an astronomical $2,500 apiece for veal from Spago (very haute) and a backyard concert (very hot). Organized by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee to support six Democratic senatorial candidates, the affair was taped by HBO. Streisand crooned old favorites (People, The Way We Were) as well as new variations (Throw Out the Clowns), explaining that she felt she "must sing again to raise money...
...last good shot, which it was. Earle is 31,"the tour bus is home," and making it in country music needs a young man's grit after all. But MCA has given him a seven-album contract, and some material for the new record is getting an airing in concert. Those new songs nail a listener right to the spot. Steve Earle is already fulfilling his promise even before he has stopped being promising. No time to waste...
...even the ticket revenues will not cover the cost of the entire celebration, say finance administrators. The stadium event and a folk concert will be the only major events to charge more than $10, while a champagne and jazz ball at the Charles Hotel will cost only $5 and the more than 100 symposia with top University professors will be free...
...sesquitercentenary was conceived as a "family affair," Stephenson says. A public party on the Charles, a folk concert, and other aspects of the 350th labeled as vacuous and glitzy were attempts, he says, to make Harvard's celebration accessible to a broad audience. According to Stephenson, the celebration should dispel such criticism...