Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here, the economy of this subculture thrived, as Deadheads sold pins, bumper-stickers, and T-shirts, hoping to make enough to cover gas money and the price of a ticket...
...spirit of giving seems to pervade the Deadhead culture. When we ran into someone with two tickets for sale, I offered him $50 for both, even though we had previously agreed that we would go as high as $35 apiece. Startled by my reckless spending, he said, "Wait a minute, I'm not out to make a profit or anything. Take 'em for $45." After giving him the money, a friend said, "See? No one's here to make money. They just want to make sure everyone gets in!" Dumb-founded I took the ticket, and we headed...
...egalitarian hair? Was it really such a good idea to get rid of George III and Lord North? Given the uninflected worship of money that marks the 1980s, it is no wonder that the spectacle of privilege enjoying its own toilette has become America's hottest cultural ticket. Thus Lord Marchmain of Brideshead becomes the Blake Carrington of the American upper middle classes...
...regional and major lines are getting together in new ventures that fly under names like American Eagle and Republic Express. Last week an agreement creating Eastern Air Midwest Express went into effect. Air Midwest ticket holders now board planes in Topeka, Wichita and Des Moines that bear the name Eastern Air Midwest Express. At Kansas City they transfer to an Eastern flight going to another destination. When returning to the smaller cities, they fly Eastern to Kansas City and then transfer to an Eastern Air Midwest Express plane. In this way Eastern does business in towns in Kansas and Iowa...
...Monday evening, Cambridge meter maid Elizabeth A. Gallinaro had just finished writing a parking ticket for a Chevrolet parked at the cornner of Trowbridge St. and Broadway when 30-year-old Cantabrigian Debbie Sharpe allegedly grabbed her and punched her in the face. Three witnesses at the scene of the crime confirmed the incident...