Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public seems ready to let bygones be bygones. Subscriptions are back up from a low of 11,700 to nearly 18,000, and ticket sales provide almost 75% of the $8.1 million annual budget. Unfortunately, what appears onstage is no guarantee of continued enthusiasm. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, winner of the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, was daringly reconceived by director Claude Purdy rather than simply copied from the Broadway production. In almost every case, however, the changes dissipated the power of Wilson's poetic drama of rootlessness and religious...
...December state-of-the-game message, Ueberroth proclaimed that minority employment in baseball has risen from 2% to 10% in two years and that minorities have filled 102 of the latest 282 front-office openings in areas like promotions and ticket sales. However, home-run king Henry Aaron, now player-development director for the Atlanta Braves, noticed that there are still no black general managers. "It sounds like the same old bull," he said...
Then there is the "Dump Quayle" strategy. "If Jerry Ford could dump Nelson Rockefeller," says a Baker friend, "why couldn't Bush dump Quayle?" Bush could, of course, but then there would be the residence problem. With both candidates from Texas, a Bush-Baker ticket might be required by the Constitution to forfeit that state's electoral votes. "And besides that," says Robert Strauss, "folks would probably find the whole thing too cute...
...Harvard Athletic Ticket office announced today that there may be extra beanpot tickets on sale on Monday...
Those interested in purchasing the tickets may inquire after 9 a.m. Monday at the ticket office located in the Harvard Hall basement...