Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby shifted from London to Broadway in September 1981, theatergoers gasped at the record-setting $100 ticket price and bottom-numbing 8 1/2-hr. length. Co-Producer Bernard Jacobs of the Shubert Organization described seeing both halves in one day as "participating with the actors in a survival experience." Nonetheless, Nickleby's 14-week run became a sellout, playing to almost 55,000 people and leaving countless others feeling they had missed a triumph never to be repeated...
...final, the freshmen fell to Neptune, a club from Dublin, Ireland, by two-thirds of a length. Harvard led at the start, fell behind by three-quarters of a length at the three-quarter mile mark, then pulled almost even toward the end of the 1-5/16 mile course. Neptune was warned for faulty steering four times, and covered the course...
...desire to make a few more remarks on the ways this great land may yet fulfill or betray its destiny. In what follows, I will have occasion to repeat some of my own words; for the past 1 1/2 centuries, scarcely anyone commenting on America at any length has failed to quote Tocqueville. I ask the same indulgence...
...thrills to families in search of a good time at a reasonable cost. But by the early % 1950s, these Coney Islands of the Mind were crumbling along with the cities they served. Then Disney, who had already revolutionized the movie business with his Mickey Mouse short films and feature-length cartoons, conceived a new show-biz hybrid called the theme park. No rickety roller coasters, no sucker- fleecing games of chance, no sideshow tawdriness for Uncle Walt. At his place every path would be as spotless as Formica; every doorway would be scaled to just above kid-size; every "attraction...
Bell spoke at length about the challenges computers present to national governments...