Word: sellouts
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Played annually at New York City's Lincoln Center, Balanchine's ballet is a classic, a casting-proof sellout that generations of children have grown up on. (After a year or two, they become members of the boisterous Nutcracker fraternity who ritually applaud the prince's victories, always at the same plot points.) The movie should have been a triumph, but somehow it falls short. Not because of the performances, which are fine. Culkin appears a little too camera-wise performing among relative amateurs, but he is an effective prince. Kistler dances with the tender grace of a fairy princess...
Depending on one's point of view, extolling "the new centrality of economic policy in our foreign ((affairs))," to use Secretary of State Warren Christopher's phrase, represents either a welcome maturation or a damnable sellout. In any event, it is hardly a small change; it's a 180 degrees turn...
Unlike other Games--like the Notre Dame-Florida St. contest last week--the Harvard-Yale match-up has seldom been a guaranteed sellout. In 1989, the game drew close to 60,000. But that year the Ivy League title was on the line...
Boston University--the Hockey East preseason favorite--took on ECAC preseason favorite Rensselaer before a sellout crowd of 3,806, the largest attendance in the arena's 22-year history...
Celebrating the University of Wisconsin's first football victory over the University of Michigan in 12 years, 12,000 spectators out of a sellout 77,000 tried to pour onto the field and trampled 75 people, injuring seven critically. Said Wisconsin's security chief: "It was pent-up emotion, and it got out of control...