Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city raise its convention revenues from $56 million in 1970 to a projected $115 million this year. More than 90% of the center's office space is rented. Although the complex looks a bit like a mother ship from Star Wars?or perhaps because of the fact?visitors flock to its more than 20 restaurants and stylish boutiques...
...Wars could drag on longer than the Thirty Years War. But if the rest of the installments in the series are as good as the two released to date, Lucas can prolong his battles in space as long as he wants--or as long as movie-goers continue to flock to the films in record numbers...
...that of the U.S. The Paris subway gleams, new cars crowd the superhighways, and luxurious glass condominiums sprout from the North Sea to the Aegean. Part of this wealth is spent on U.S. goods -Parisians wear Levi's and eat at McDonald's, and West Germans flock to New York City to buy cheap clothing from the surly natives-but the Europeans also know that their products, their cars and their computers are infiltrating markets that were once American...
...Bolshoi's ten-month season, which normally finishes in June, is being extended through Aug. 3 this year to accommodate Olympics visitors. To the international audiences that will soon flock to the Bolshoi Theater, the company may still seem to be a marvel of Moscow, an institution that glories in lavish productions and virtuoso dancing. But to dance buffs, the current season has been lackluster, relying heavily on stock repertory and a dwindling pool of leading dancers. The most eagerly anticipated new production, Plisetskaya's The Sea Gull, which she performed to music composed by her husband, Rodion...
Despite these criticisms, half a million tourists are expected to flock to the village this summer. And the mountain folk of Oberammergau are unlikely soon to give up their Passion. Says a Roman soldier in the cast: "We have acted in this play as children. We have sung in the choir and lived with the text all our lives. We shall not abandon it because some people in New York and fancy art critics think Rosner is better. This is our play. They can't take it away from...