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Before a 1994 sell-out by They Might Be Giants,the council had lost more than $15,000 each onconcerts by De La Soul, Suzanne Vega and ZiggyMarley. A comedy show by Chris Rock this pastspring also several thousand dollars more thanwhat the council had planned...
Page and Plant showed some signs of aging. But they played at a frenzied pace for exactly two hours, leaving the sell-out crowd with a sense of satisfaction at having seen the men who hundreds of other rock stars have subsequently pointed as their inspiration...
Inevitably, hard core fans will miss the nasty edge of the comic book version, and those wary of Hollywood commercialization will prick up their ears for the faintest whisper of `sell-out,' but obscure British references and gleeful violence don't always merit a $25 million budget. At least not obscure British references. Even those hard-core comic geeks who were down with Tank Girl before she became so freaking cool, ought to get a kick out of this sneak peek into their adorable idol's history. The movie's plot can be appreciated as a prologue, how Tank Girl...
...among a bevy of cultural offerings timed to coincide with Junior Parents Weekend, the event drew sell-out crowds of 330 on both Friday and Saturday nights...
Even before a vote could take place, however, leading tenant and landlord groups denounced the compromise as a sell-out and as a repudiation of democracy, respectively...