Word: stadiumitis
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...Boss's last haul around the circuit for a while, and fans are descending in pickups, limos, vans, customized hardtops and road-weary convertibles onto his Super Bowl-size venues. This week and next he will be playing on home turf, six nights at New Jersey's Giants Stadium, which will hold, with field seating, 60,000 people at a time. The size of all this may be a little hard to grasp, but try using this for scale: the Beatles, appearing at Shea Stadium in 1965, played before 56,000 people, one time only. They also played...
...shows since the early days. Intimacy is lost incrementally as venues and audiences get larger, of course, and Boss fanatics of long standing will have to do a little adjusting to their dreams. Playing music on a ball field may never be ideal, but with state-of-the-art stadium sound by Engineer Bruce Jackson and with Springsteen onstage, bearing down hard on Cadillac Ranch, this is as good as it gets. The Springsteen concerts are the fulfillment of one of pop's dearest ideals: sensationally popular music that is also great rock 'n' roll...
...London today, so a limited-edition 70th anniversary special Monopoly Here & Now brings the game up to date. New hot properties such as Notting Hill and Canary Wharf are selling for mini-money millions, a barrage of London icons - including the London Eye, Tate Modern and the new Wembley Stadium - have appeared and, instead of scooping up $18 in a beauty contest, players who draw the right Chance card receive $183,000 for winning a reality TV show. The Free Parking square, however, is history. In London? Never...
...developers of Tokyo's Epson Aqua Stadium have their way, visiting an aquarium will no longer be the preserve of schoolchildren and young families. Instead, bored office workers are the target of this snazzy complex, which opened in April next to the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Shinagawa, one of Tokyo's prime business districts. Described as "entertainment for adults" by spokesman Naoto Takahashi, the theme park boasts facilities designed to lure grownups from their usual happy-hour haunts, featuring a slick restaurant and caf?-bar, concert hall (U.S. surfer turned songwriter Jack Johnson recently performed) and, of course, an aquarium...
...qualify for the World Cup finals-the first time women were allowed at a professional soccer match in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution 0 Number of fans at Japan's World Cup finals-qualifying 2-0 defeat of North Korea; the match was played in a closed stadium in Bangkok following riots during March's North Korea-Iran game in Pyongyang