Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STREET ENTERTAINMENT. New York has enough street musicians to people-and entertain-a convention hall. Their fare is gratis-and sometimes worth even less. Yet a few rate an earing and eying-among them, the Wretched Refuse, a conglomerate of nine fine instrumentalists who specialize in asphalt bluegrass. Sugar Blue, a black harmonica player who plies his tunes in Greenwich Village, may be the best itinerant musician in New York. Around Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, less prominent and more indigent fiddlers than those indoors make Brahms burst in midair, usually by tuning their violins up a tone to make...
...first-round contests will be played on Wednesday. Maryland will play host to Brown, and fourth-seeded Navy will entertain North Carolina. The Terps and the Midshipmen have appeared in the tournament every year since it was started...
Present Laughteris designed simply to entertain. Coward spoofs the "theater of ideas" advocated by Ibsen and Chekov in the character of Roland Maule, a young cuckoo-headed would-be playwright. Maule, a caricature of the "serious" dramatist, spouts streams of cliched arguments about "commercial theater," "intellectual significance,"and of course "posterity." Ironically Maule adores and admires Garry, who personified frivolous commercial theater...
...estimated that 185,000 people visit the exhibit at Harvard yearly. Schultes said however, that "the glass flowers are not here to entertain the public, but for use in teaching botany...
...these jerks really believe that the armies of the U.S.S.R. and those of the Peoples Republic of China will really entertain the luxury of unions...