Word: sellout
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There's a paradox in being a rock-'n'-roll rebel. To succeed is to fail; the more records you sell, the more you're considered a sellout. Your raison d'etre is antiestablishment rage, but once your record goes platinum, you're forced to admit that a) you're now part of the problem or that b) maybe at least some of the people with a zillion dollars in the bank aren't all bad. Either way, everything feels compromised, corrupted. The phone rings. It's Philip Morris -- they want to sponsor your next tour, hold a cigarette giveaway...
Lawmakers from the Northwest did not agree. "This is a sellout," said Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, who vows to fight the plan. "The ratio of common sense is inversely proportional to the number of scientists and bureaucrats involved," declared Oregon's other Senator, Mark Hatfield. But it appears that Clinton will not need to submit his plan to Congress, and for that, many on Capitol Hill may be grateful. They can publicly attack the proposal for the consumption of the audience back home, deflect the heat, then quietly draw some measure of comfort from the fact that, at last, there...
...albums capture the qualities that make her recitals sellout events. Bartoli grabs the audience. She sings with her eyes too. In Rossini, who has lavish comic zest, she courts the phrases and the audience as well. She displays, as Levine says, "an exceptional instrument, personality, grasp of the music and the text and, most of all, the ability to communicate all this...
Although tickets will continue to be sold for $25 until game time, no one believes that a sellout is possible...
Though they realize that notoriety these days is difficult without being in Madonna's backup band, Levinson and Yoo are satisfied with the "real honor" of performing. Yoo said, "They're three to hear you," which seems to mean more to them both than a short-lived sellout making music for TV commercials...