Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget of this movie would appear to be approximately half the price of a ticket. No matter, because audiences whoop it up at all the synthetic terror and threadbare mumbo jumbo. There are many moments of low comedy, all inadvertent, as when Abby beats up on her husband, croaking "You are gonna love and obey!" as she pummels him. The rampant foolishness, indeed, may be part of the point. Audiences know that Abby's appeal is way low-down and prefer to chide themselves for enjoying it. As much as they may laugh, though, audiences could never put themselves...
...with stillborn fictional parables about a scholar who tromps through picturesque locations, searching for himself, or perhaps just for a guitar. There are intellectual asides (Stephen Stills ruminates that "some day words, and the reassurance of words, won't be necessary-soon"), social speculations (a discussion of concert ticket prices segues into a rendition of Find the Cost of Freedom), and heavy images (a needle stashed inside a Bible) of terror and salvation. There is also an occasional felicity: a scene of black, hooded figures carrying wooden crosses, riding hard down a lonely beach, has power and mystery...
...game was sold out, but still reporters expected Matthews to pull seats out of the air for their pals. He would always tell them to talk with Gordon Page, Harvard's ticket manager. Page is sometimes able to help desperate sportswriters and alumni, and when he does, he often gets gifts of whiskey at Christmas in gratiude. Page does not drink, so he sells the liquor to the Varsity Club, and recently he used his earnings to build a tool shed at his Bedford house, a few blocks from where Matthews lives...
PRINCE BLAMES himself and other Broadway producers to a certain extent for this state of affairs--for "desensitizing" the audience--but he insists that part of the responsibility is theirs. What he doesn't seem to realize is that the Broadway system, by forcing up ticket prices and making financial success the sole criterion, has created its own monster, the Broadway audience. And now that entrepreneurs are offering unfamiliar fare, that audience is dwindling. They are unwilling to pay $15 a person to sit on bleachers and risk being offended...
...Less than a year before, he was shot in the foot by another inmate, who had been armed to supervise cons working on the prison's 22,000-acre farm. For Bogard, who was serving a 25-year stretch for armed robbery, the knife injury was a ticket to freedom. But the price-paralysis from the waist down -came high, and Bogard sued three former prison officials, a prison guard and three inmates, charging negligence, cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of due process. In October, a six-woman jury in Greenville, Miss., awarded $500,000 to Bogard...