Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That year, the Middle American constituency struck back against the activist '60s -- against antiwar protesters, against the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution, against high taxes, Government regulation, the Washington elite, the Woodstock generation. George Wallace was in full cry against "pointy-headed intellectuals." The Nixon-Agnew ticket swept into power. Watergate brought Gerald Ford's brief period of consolidation and then the anomaly of Jimmy Carter, who came to Washington campaigning against Big Government, just as Reagan did four years later...
...remains to be seen whether the money was well spent: advance ticket sales are holding steady at $5.6 million, and the production has already broken house records at the Gershwin Theater, Broadway's biggest. But weekly operating costs exceed $300,000, and according to Producer Martin Starger, Starlight would have to play to almost 90% of capacity just to recoup its investment within a year...
...Tickets for the NCAA hockey Final Four next weekend at Joe Louis Arena in Detriot will go on sale today at 11 a.m. at the Harvard ticket office in the basement of Harvard Hall. They will remain on sale through tomorrow...
...London and sold out during an eight-week tryout in Washington, Les Miserables opened on Broadway last week with advance ticket sales of more than $11 million -- the most in U.S. theater history, nearly double the $6.2 million record set by Cats in 1982. The show is already slated to open in 20 more countries: requests have come from the Soviet Union and South Africa, Bulgaria and Japan. Says Producer Cameron Mackintosh, 40, an impresario whose properties include Cats, Little Shop of Horrors and the London smash The Phantom of the Opera: "Les Miserables has the potential...
...Castel Sant'Angelo from the depths of the Metropolitan Opera in Tosca and put half of Paris onstage for La Boheme, Franco Zeffirelli must have felt some pressure to top himself with his new production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Curious first-nighters, proud holders of the toughest opera ticket of the season, entered the Met last week wondering how far the director's passion for outsize verisimilitude would extend. Would he cut off the Prince of Persia's head and stick it on a pole? Build the Great Wall of China? Or (gasp!) actually respect the libretto and provide...