Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reflects the hard, fast, brutal realities of the modern urban ghetto which produced it. This music reached its peak in the late fifties and early sixties when Bluesmen like Elmore James, Sonny Boy Wiliamson, The Muddy Waters Band, B. B. King and others sold thousands of records in the black ghettos of the North and dusty darktowns of the South. Depits its success in black communiites, it was considered too raw, earthy and sexual for the white teenage audience and was black-balled by Top-40 radio stations...
...know-how attained, money remains the other obstacle for black business. A Roxbury businessman, encountering difficulty collecting collateral for a bank loan, asked Williams for backing. Freedom Industries sold him old supermarket shelving, refrigerators, and cases at $1000, and the bank, accepting his acquisition as collateral equal to $9000, granted him the loan...
...Roth's books have sold well, but he has never really been controversial or had his apartment examined in gossip columns ("the smart East 80s ... very solid, no patterns"). Now that Alexander Portnoy has made him a celebrity, he is dodging fame with SalI ingeresque determination-which, of course, only draws more attention to him. He used to answer the phone, "Benito Cereno here."* Now he doesn't answer his phone at all, and he tends...
...with running sales through the priority ticket service, Merrick had agreed to a discount price for students--the first time any legitimate theatre had done so. Students were to be charged a flat $2.50 price for the best seats available at any given performance. The ad ran once and sold out completely within two weeks, selling nearly $5000 worth of $2.50 tickets. "Then we began getting flak from the box office of Shubert Theatre about the discounts," Mindich said, "and the offer was withdrawn...
Boston After Dark, of course, is out to help the theatres as much as the students. This past year they sold out a quarter of all subscriptions sold by the Theatre Company of Boston, and perhaps 12 per cent for the Charles Playhouse (most of the others being resubscribers). "This makes a tremendous difference to these theatres," Opin said. "Often the difference between a mediocre year and going under." And this year BAD finally convinced the Opera Company of Boston to institute a 10 per cent student discount. "They were absolutely opposed," Mindich said. "Now mabye next year...