Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During all this blitz, Jackson was in heavy rehearsal for what is expected to be a yearlong concert tour, beginning in Tokyo on Sept. 12; it is his first show since his 1984 tour with his brothers. A triumph seems assured: the box office was cleaned out in 7 1/2 hours, and $45 seats were soon on the black market for $775. After years of antic hibernation, Michael Jackson, now 29, is again ready for the world. Is the world ready for Michael Jackson? It has no choice...
...headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...
Leno is the best at his job right now, but several other young comics are also making their mark on the club and concert circuit. Among the standouts...
...numbers of Jewish students increased, Columbia, in concert with other leading private universities, redifined academic prestige. Butler developed the notion of 'selective admission,' a concept that turned the old basis of prestige on its head. Now the sign of leadership was the number of qualified students turned away...
...Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin next to the originals, with their booming bass lines. Only at a concert with Jackie Wilson and Eddie Cochran does La Bamba come alive as a sharp tribute to '50s rock from some sons of the pioneers. The rest of the movie plays like a 106- minute version of a teen ballad: Donna in the easy-listening remix...