Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boxing results: Leonard and Peretz out point Hagler and Cock burn, respectively, before a sellout in Madison Square Garden. "Everyone has a God-given talent." Leonard tells the press afterwards. "Mine happens to be mauling the hell out of other human beings' faces." Peretz, behind on two judges' scorecards, is named the winner when Cock burn is docked points for hitting below the belt...
...most recently reported quarter fell sharply. Watchman is bound to help. 'Every piece we get we could sell 20 times,' says Sony's Miami-based Southeast regional manager, Barry Mitchell. In Dallas, Neiman-Marcus Merchandise Manager Robert Ackerman describes the Watchman as 'a sellout in every one of our 18 stores...
...Vasili Aksyonov as if they were stocking up on candles before a storm. A first printing of 100,000 copies would vanish from the stores within 48 hours, and any magazine containing an Aksyonov short story, like his celebrated Halfway to the Moon, could count on the immediate sellout of a 2 million-copy press run. No other prose writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally. Aksyonov had been born an alien in the Soviet world...
...sellout crowed of 39,830 spectators remained silent as Allard got off a desperate toss to Farrell. The senior tight end lunged forward but could not grasp Allard's offering before it hit Michie Stadium's artificial surface to give Army...
...light shines best on Peter Allen at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, and he knows it. In 1981, before seven sellout audiences, the campy Australian crooner rode onto the Radio City stage atop a camel This time he offers an affectionate if glitzy tribute to Al Jolson. There are 37 musicians, 36 Rockettes and a 40-ft. staircase for Allen to prance upon As a dancer, Allen makes up in perspiration what he lacks in locomotion. Is he afraid of falling from those steps? Said he: "There are 36 girls to catch...