Word: sellout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most nights, Moscow's Estrada Theater is alive and kicking with song-and-dance troupes. For the past two months, though, sellout crowds have packed the old hall to watch two men sit for hours at a table, each exquisitely immobile except for an occasional flick of the wrist. A whole line of swiveling chorines could not have elicited more excitement than those flicks, for the event was the world championship of chess, the No. 1 sport and all-round mania of the Soviet Union...
Youngsters begin lining up at the box office of Manhattan's Biltmore Theatre before dawn. Sidewalk scalpers hustle tickets for as much as $50 a pair. A year after its Broadway debut, the rock musical Hair is not only a nightly sellout in New York and Los Angeles but an international hit as well. It has been playing regularly to packed houses in London, Scandinavia and West Germany, and new productions are opening in Paris and Sydney...
...born conductor to head a front-rank U.S. orchestra, he was chosen to succeed the late Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1958; since then, subscriptions rose from 9,886 to 25,570, and concerts at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, at least when Lenny conducted, were seldom less than a sellout. Although the orchestra could play dispiritedly for antipatico guest conductors, at its best it was the equal of any in the world. Proof was the power, sweep and controlled passion of last week's stunning performances of the Mahler Third. Balletic Leaps. Purists complained of Bernstein's balletic...
...either alone or in coalition since its founding in 1949, still bitterly oppose recognition of East Germany. "The Free Democrats," charged C.D.U. Deputy Ernest Miiller-Hermann, "are a band of guerrilla fighters who do the bidding of the other side behind the backs of the government." Warning against a sellout to the Communists, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger derisively tagged the Free Democrats as the "Anerkennungspartei"-party of recognition. The Christian Democrats argue that recognition would imperil the security of isolated West Berlin by undermining the allied guarantees for the city, legalize the Communist hold on East Germany and sanction the permanent...
...itself is shaping up, and that the United States should help them in this effort instead of forcing them to make a deal with the other side since according to them, this would only lead to an eventual communist take-over and therefore would be tantamount to an American sellout of its ally...