Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unless you're the only pro game in town or unless your city is populated in the multi-millions, the average ticket price is $7 and season ticket cost of $350 has priced it self out of reach of a large segment of fans. This is not necessarily the fault of the owners, players, cities, but rather it's all part of the American system of free enterprise...
...Sure, there are a lot of people who are fascinated by the idea of going abroad, even if it's to fight. That's exciting, and life here is not exciting. It's also a way to get ahead when you come home. Africa is a ticket out of here and a good return-ticket home, too." Vice President Rodriguez admits that at first Cuba's civilian contingents abroad "looked like a kind of correctional institution, filled with delinquents, undesirables, homosexuals-even Jehovah's Witnesses. That was a distortion of our purpose. Some people falsified...
Beatty was drawn into politics by Viet Nam and Bobby Kennedy in 1968. He took a year and a half off to work for the '72 Democratic ticket. George McGovern was impressed by his newfound fund raiser's seriousness: "Warren not only cares about issues, but his judgment is very perceptive." Mostly to be available for McGovern, Beatty rejected a number of major films: The Godfather, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby and The Sting. Once the campaign was over, Beatty got to work producing and starring in Shampoo, a trenchant social comedy about a randy Beverly Hills hairdresser...
...other support is the warmth offered by a succession of women. Chief among these is Betty Slonim, an American actress with an old, wealthy impresario boyfriend and an itch to star on the Yiddish stage. With Hitler's invasion of Poland imminent, Betty represents Aaron's ticket to freedom, to America and to the riches that will be hers when her sponsor dies...
What I find most authentic today in the notes I typed after that lunch was the spontaneous sound of the Republican voice 25 years ago. Ike could have had the 1952 nomination, I now know, on the ticket of either party. But I find my notes picking up his theme-a theme which then sounded fresh to me, but now, on the larynxes of Republican orators, sounds as old-fashioned as a lament from the Prophets. Ike was closing the lunch with his credo...