Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only in houses equipped with state-of-the-art screening and sound systems. Of course, 2,000-plus theaters is no art-house opening. And, says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations, "it will break records no matter what, because they'll fill every seat. The demand for this film will far outweigh supply...
...pulled up to the 1,300-seat Paramount Theater, where the main event was held, a sign at the box office read SOLD OUT. Later we heard that tickets had actually been scalped out front. Inside, all previous scores and rankings have been dropped. Everything now depends on which poems the judges like tonight. We draw first up; it's disappointing, but we're confident. We wait through the band and featured poets. (During the slam, a slam veteran, Patricia Smith, the columnist who was forced to resign from the Boston Globe for fabricating stories, had brought an audience...
...Calif. "You asked 27 questions tonight--and not one about Monica Lewinsky." Those in attendance echoed the words of rancher Grant Gerson, 77, who said, "People are fed up with it. I don't think it's relevant to anything going on here." And yet Sherman, who won his seat in 1996 by just 5 percentage points, is concerned that the scandal will cost him 3 of those points this year, turning his re-election bid into a fight for survival...
...Glenn is fit for space flight at age 77, why does the Federal Aviation Administration require commercial pilots to stop flying at 60? If NASA thinks a 77-year-old Glenn is good enough for it, you can bet I'd want to have him in the pilot's seat of the airliner I'm riding in. CARL ZIEGLER Hugo, Minn...
...something he had no control over, self-preservation takes over. "One person has the controls of the plane," says Thompson, "and even though military tradition holds that they bear equal responsibility for situational awareness, the guy flying the plane is culpable." After Seagraves' immunity deal, the two front-seat crewmen were charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy for allegedly destroying the videotape. In exchange for avoiding charges including negligent homicide, Seagraves will tell what was on the erased (not blank, as has been reported in some quarters) videocassette found in a camera on the plane, and what happened...