Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evening with Champions," which featured 14 world class and Olympic skaters, entertained sellout audiences three nights in a row last November. Among the skaters participating was Toller Cranston, the former Canadian men's champion and 1976 Olympic silver medalist...
...backhand shot somehow beat Harvard goalie Grant Blair, scuttling the Crimson's comeback and shocking the sellout crowd...
...fear and trembling in the face of sex, unknown languages, difficulties of thought, [and] mysteries of political life." He need the book to "construct the reader," leading even the lesser read into the patterns of thought of medieval scholastics. The Name of the Rose, Eco suggests, was not a sellout of academic reserve but a combination of scholarly work with the appearance of what the public wants. The Name of the Rose promised "sex and a criminal plot where the guilty purely discovered in the end," but like most medieval university lectures, offered only "Latin, prac5ically no women, [and] lots...
Officials from the Cambridge Cares and Shares Committee, founded last month to raise funds and concern for the ailing African nation, say they hope for a sellout crowd when the committee brings dancers, a symphony orchestra and gospel singers to Sanders Theater on January 13 and 20. All proceeds will go directly to Grassroots International, a non-profit emergency relief agency based in Cambridge...
Environmentalists are outraged by the Administration's compromise. "It's an absolute sellout," says Craig Van Note, executive vice president of a Washington-based consortium of animal-welfare groups. Thomas Garrett, the head of the U.S. delegation to the IWC's 1981 meeting, agrees. "What the Administration is actually doing is caving in to Japanese pressure," he says. "The U.S. has not won a promise from Japan to end commercial whaling and may not even have a deal to limit sperm whaling." Conservation groups have sent U.S. Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige a letter documenting Japanese whale...