Word: ticket
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...down to a contest of personalities. This explains in part why an increasingly conservative voting public?as uncovered by TIME Soundings and other surveys?chose a more liberal Congress. With only rare exceptions, voters ignored traditional party or ideological categories. In Vermont, says former Governor Philip H. Hoff, "the ticket-splitting was just staggering." It helped elect Democrat Patrick J. Leahy to the Senate from traditionally Republican Vermont...
There is talk of putting Carey on the 1976 national ticket, but he may be too much of a New Yorker to appeal to a wider electorate-his voice a bit too gravelly, his approach a mite too street wise. However, simply by recapturing the nation's second most populous state from the G.O.P., he has become a powerful figure in Democratic national politics...
...took Shaffer 2½ years to write Equus, the dazzling psychological thriller-about a boy who blinds six horses-that is now Broadway's rarest ticket. He had heard in 1972 about the incident on which the play is based. A stableboy had been brought before the magistrates in a rural part of England, accused of blinding with a poker the 26 horses he cared for. The story haunted Shaffer. He never tried to find out the actual details because "I'm not a journalist or a photographer." He is, however, a consummate technician. He delved into...
...most at ease when pervaded by a gentle air of melacholy that advocates introspection and self-awareness. An excellent performer, he is able to move entire audiences by his poignant vocals and sparkling guitar playing. A must for folkies, et. al. At Sanders Theater November 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets on sale for $4 at Holyoke Ticket Center...
Fiorello! is pretty appropriate for election week, being a musical about New York's great Depression-era mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia. LaGuardia, it was said, with an Italian father and a Jewish mother, was a balanced ticket in himself; he was so popular he said of the party hacks "I could run on a laundry ticket and beat those political bums." He loved little children and the Fire Department and is chiefly remembered, in New York, for reading the funnies over the radio during a newspaper strike. But the musical isn't nearly as colorful or interesting...