Word: sellout
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...With practically no exceptions, every show is a sellout and they have twice as many shows currently playing as we have in New York. A theater ticket is one of the few things they can buy without ration points. Some shows are good, some are bad. It doesn't seem to matter. The musicals that I have seen don't come up to our standards, but they have a repertory company with Laurence Olivier as the moving spirit, which makes anything on Broadway look like a penny arcade...
...Tito had a measure of popular support, largely in rural areas and among Yugoslav youth. Unlike an unalloyed police state, the regime not only permitted but deviously encouraged a certain opposition. Milan Grol's critical new weekly, Demokratija, allotted newsprint despite the paper shortage, was a sellout. Said he: "Now I have both the people I want and those I don't want. Every malcontent in Yugoslavia is on my side." The result perhaps explained why Grol was allowed to operate...
...Johnny-come-lately to show business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...
Ryti & Co. had been war-dancing on dangerous ice since last June's sellout to the Nazis (TIME, July 10). The parliamentary pretext for Ryti's dismissal was a letter he wrote Hitler, promising that no Finn would make a step toward peace with Russia without first informing Berlin. But the cause of Finland's crisis lay deeper. Watching the Red Army thrusts along the Baltic, even the most myopic Finn could see that soon Finland would be cut off from Germany. The troops, tanks, guns and planes that Ribbentrop promised had not been delivered. Finns could...
Published by the University of Chicago Press, the DAE was a sellout: of 2,500 sets printed, all but 100 were subscribed for; even at $100 a set, the rest will hardly last until paper supplies permit a reissue...