Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most stunning development was Texas Air's agreement to buy Eastern Airlines for about $600 million. For Eastern Chairman Frank Borman, the deal was an unfortunate, but unavoidable act of a company close to bankruptcy; for many of the employees it was a shameful sellout; and for the rest of the industry it was a shocker. If the merger goes through, it will create the largest U.S. airline, flying some 55 million passengers annually and serving 212 domestic and 71 overseas destinations. United would drop to second...
...take home the ECAC regular season crown for the second straight year, RPI must win its remaining four games--including its showdown with Harvard in front what promises to be a loud sellout crowd at Bright. Meanwhile, the Crimson must lose two of its remaining three games against Vermont, St. Lawrence and Clarkson...
...read a telegram from Rock Hudson, the veteran movie and TV star who acknowledged last July that he had been stricken with the illness, which is almost invariably fatal. Hudson's disclosure sent shock waves through the West Coast movie establishment. More than anything else, it accounted for the sellout attendance at last week's $250-to-$500-a-plate dinner, raising an estimated $1.2 million for AIDS Project Los Angeles, a group that provides assistance to victims of the disease. Too sick to attend, Hudson referred poignantly in his message to his new and unwanted recognition...
...Wilson's typically elliptical spoken texts and allusive stage pictures of railroad trains and spaceships. There were no formal arias or indeed any set pieces at all; a small chorus sang "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight" and solfege syllables (do, re, mi) over hypnotic, relentless music. Sellout audiences loved it. The work toured Europe and then came to the Met in November...
...begonias and African lilies, and islands of pink-and-white quince. He has just returned from a rehearsal, and, as he sits down to talk about a career that spans six decades, he admits to being tired. The play, Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?, was a sellout in London last year; it opens on Broadway at the end of the month, and Harrison has been practicing with an almost entirely new cast. The only one remaining from the London production, indeed, is his co-star and partner in charm, Claudette Colbert...