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...quick-buck artists at street level, high-priced attorneys who speculate in tickets for profits, corporate executives trading favors, music-industry insiders and Mafiosi who control key blocks of tickets and take a cut of the inflated price. While Pearl Jam is pointing the finger at Ticketmaster's relatively modest service fees, it is these behind-the-scenes brokers who are responsible for the hundreds of dollars added to the price of some tickets. Though these scalpers handle less than 20% of the tickets, they are often the best tickets: the first 10 rows at an Elton John concert...
...most noncitizens." To fund either approach, the sponsors propose cutting off millions of legal immigrants from school breakfast and lunch programs, foster care, emergency food and shelter and child care, as well as AFDC. Though Clinton's plan also includes cuts in programs for noncitizens, they are far more modest. "It's a matter of priorities," says McCurdy. "We believe American citizens are the priority...
Clinton began his morning jog wearing a radically modest pair of gray knee-length shorts, thus addressing the national fixation on the presidential gams. Clinton has been criticized, and ridiculed, since campaign days for wearing "unpresidential" nylon jogging shorts that some believe revealed too much of his pale, large legs...
With its towers, gaps and controlled riot of swooping curves, the new American Center in Paris unmistakably bears the mark of its designer, California architect Frank Gehry. Gehry's first famous building was his Santa Monica home -- a modest Dutch colonial, transformed so provocatively with corrugated metal, glass and chain link fence that it actually drew gunfire from an irate neighbor. Ever since, Gehry has specialized in the tumbling, disjointed style known as deconstructivism. Though more conservative than his usual projects, the Paris building is still a characteristic and handsome achievement. Within this stylish envelope, the architect has accommodated...
...Glyndebourne is changing. Last week, amid fireworks and the blessing of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the company opened a new theater that seats 1,200 -- the original seated 830 -- and that includes about 60 places to be sold at $15. The design is spare, even modest, making no attempt to impose itself on the landscape, and the acoustics are much better than those of the old house. At the opening, the company tried to keep gloating to a minimum. That must have been hard. The management had, after all, opened the only new opera house in England since...