Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENTERTAINMENT. Movies were more expensive, up 25? per ticket in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The cost of watching a Pittsburgh Steelers home game rose from $6 to $7-plus a 15? surcharge to help pay for a now abuilding stadium, whose estimated price increased from $32 million last spring to $35 million at present. In the taverns of the steel city, the 15? beer could be found no more; it now costs...
Last summer Jimmy Breslin, a licensed sentimental tough-guy journalist, startled New York by running in the Democratic primary for the office of president of the city council on Norman Mailer's ticket. Now, running for the office of tough comic novelist, Breslin proves slightly more deft with bullets than he did with ballots...
...with the sort of intensity that adds volumes to every sentence. "If you want to get anything done in Hollywood, you've got to fight. It's just one big battle out there, and I don't need that." If Redford can virtually write his own ticket now, it was a privilege won only after long wrangles with agents and legal battles over suitable roles with studios. "I work it this way," he says. "If I don't like...
...Republican sooner, but I so trusted the leadership of the party under Kennedy that it took me a long time to change my mind." Exactly when Unruh changed his mind about Vietnam is unclear, but on December 1. 1968. pressure was put on him to join the Johnson primary ticket. He steadfastly refused. He argued with Bobby Kennedy nine days later and positively urged him to run. By the convention in Chicago, Unruh's efforts to swing the California delegation to McCarthy and the dove plank were "predictable...
...joke: I put on a quiz-show contestant grin and burble "Golly, Hugh, I've never won anything before. "But I can't seriously cope with the fact that I look like a raffle ticket. albeit a choice one, to my own government...