Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People wait when they have no choice or when they believe that the wait is justified by the reward-a concert ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed. Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized...
...Jacksons' Victory Tour, undertaken by Michael and his brothers as a fond and hugely remunerative farewell to familial musicmaking, was one of the most eagerly awaited and certainly the most ballyhooed pop-concert series of the year. It had also started to become the most controversial, in part because the tour organizers seemed at odds with one another and with the ideals that Michael, especially, has tried to embody. Tickets were too pricey; lots of fans were getting cut out. Disorganization and ill will were rampant. Greed was keeping pace with showmanship and good p.r. manners, and seemed...
...enchanted woods to say a few words that might bring the magic back again. There was a basic misunderstanding here that Michael must have appreciated but that got past most of the others assembled. If it is to be found anywhere, the magic is in the music. The opening concert was a reminder of that. All its panoply and pizazz suggested that the debates, the controversy, the heat and the misunderstandings were side issues that could be blown away by solid showmanship, no matter the price of the ticket...
...concert features not a single song from Victory. One might deduce from this that even the Jacksons recognize the flimsiness of much of the new material. Such an assumption is arguable-many bands like to wait until records are more familiar to an audience before performing songs from them live-but it would also reflect the sort of narrow spirit that got the tour into such hot water with the public in the first place. Yes, $30 was too much for a rafter seat so high in the stadium that you could be buzzed by low-flying aircraft...
...Miami waiting to be filled out and sent in. (The new system for buying tickets will be determined by local stadium owners. It will go into effect, at the latest, by the time tickets for the early-August New York City engagement go on sale.) Sullivan also confirmed concert dates in ten additional cities, including Detroit, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Ticket sales there, as well as the commercial longevity of Victory, will determine whether the public has turned its back on the Jacksons or whether Michael, with the help of some fast business footwork and some dazzling family showmanship...