Word: sellout
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...curtain fell, the sellout audience of 3,000 burst into a 15-minute ovation. The company's stand at Expo 67, which continues for the next two weeks with the addition of Rimsky-Kor-sakov's The Legend of the City of Ki-tezh, Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades and Borodin's Prince Igor, was already a bolshoi success...
...attempts, David Merrick had four flops, including the musical adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Still, there were many sellout holdover hits (Mame, Cactus Flower among others) and enough intriguing fresh attractions to build an all-time high Broadway gross of $55 million, up 2% from the season before. Among the high spots were: one major S.R.O. smash, the musical Cabaret; two comedy clicks, Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy; one important drama, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which...
...Johnson at week's end delicately refrained from making the first move. Kosygin feared that if he asked for a Washington meeting with the U.S. President, the Arabs would suspect him of a double cross, while Peking, which has already accused Moscow of "a perfidious betrayal, a monstrous sellout," would crow even more loudly. As for Johnson, White House Press Secretary George Christian said that if Kosygin wished to sit down and talk, the President "will, of course, be glad to see him"-but Washington did not extend an invitation...
...Lichtenstein's first pop paintings were derided as belonging to the "King Features school," and a bad joke. Today, it's all the way to the bank. At 43, Lichtenstein is a pop hero: half a dozen museums own his work, his every show is a sellout, and his prices have jumped tenfold, to $12,000 for a large canvas...
...Tuchman, noted historian and author of The Guns of August, implied that the U.S. had risked a Munich-like sellout by failing to come to Israel's aid more energetically. "If they [the Israelis] had not fought, the world would have sacrificed Israel -- with unction, with pious formula ... but without question," she declared...