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...from poor fans to richer ones, of the baseball-going experience -- jock Reaganism. The luxury boxes introduced at the Houston Astrodome in 1965 are now a moneymaking fixture in most parks; the Toronto Blue Jays mint $35 million a year from leasing Skyboxes -- more dens for the haves to entertain the other haves. Someday a town might build a stadium consisting of a thousand skyboxes and six rows of bleachers. It would suit the owners -- men who seem bent on making baseball a pursuit to follow on TV -- if you can get cable and pay-per-view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Build It, and They (Will) MIGHT Come | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...main goals of Harvard Film Archives is to promote and show those films that are not created with the intention to entertain the audience and make money, but to reveal, in a truly artistic way, various aspects of human experience, the society in which we live, and the media which influences us," says Petric...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: From Real to Reel | 7/31/1992 | See Source »

...these areas, and he found our country dragging its feet. He saw the Germans and Japanese down there just eating our lunch, selling environmental technology and environmental cleanup stuff all around the world. I think that really may have been something that made him even more determined to entertain this partnership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview With BILL CLINTON | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

Sunday night, students go back to their dormsfor a lengthy and somewhat interesting proctormeeting. Lengthy because the proctor will go overa neverending list of administrative rules.Interesting because this is the first look atintricate-but-oh-so-fascinating dorm relations.Students can entertain themselves during theproctor's "be supportive of each other" speech bystudying the other dorm in habitants and pickingout The Loner, The Social butterfly, The Kid Who'sRumored To Have A Perfect SAT Score But No One'sReally Sure, The Shoulder to Cry On Kid and TheAnnoying as Hell...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...Scott Fitzgerald said it is a sign of genius to be able to entertain in the mind two mutually contradictory ideas without going insane. America does not think of itself as a genius anymore. A number of Americans went crazy when they heard Quayle's line about Murphy Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Seriously, Folks . . . | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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