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Harvard ticket manager Edward K. Carey '55 of the Harvard Ticket Office said 28,000 to 30,000 people will turn out for the match--not a sell-out crowd--if the weather cooperates. "If not, people will probably stay home," Carey said...
...point of view, being a popularizer of science trying to "get the word out" can be frustrating, both because it takes away from valuable time at the bench or at the field station, or because writing for "the public" can incur the scorn of peers who claim a "sell...
There is no question why this performance has had sell-out crowds and standing ovations everywhere. Anna Deavere Smith handles everything at once--playwriting, performing, directing. She said of her work: "The resulting performance is meant to capture the personality of a place by attempting to embody its varied population and varied points of view in one person--myself." And so it does, and it demands to be seen...
...whole scene is actually being shot on the parklands of a Vanderbilt mansion in the heart of North Carolina. Poor Nathaniel doesn't have any real woods to roam anymore. Instead, he and his Mohican companions are trapped in a contrived, expensive prison: a brainless, phony, bombastic sell-out that reeks of everything evil in Hollywood. It is a depressing piece of work...
Indeed, the typical alternative rock fan (never mind the oxymoron) tends to go through bands like nobody's business, ever on the rampage for the novel and always primed to roust a sell-out. Some divide alternative rock fans into two groups--those who have been at this game for years and those who have only just begun to put bands in the same category as kleenex--use them up and throw them away. The latter are accused of posing; the former, of snobbery. Everyone is, of course, up-to-the-minute hip. Novelty obscures quality sometimes...