Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kooks. Streaking, in a sense, is just what the Alabama Governor is doing. Despite mild disclaimers, he is running hard for a place on the Democratic national ticket in 1976. For the first time he is given a fair chance-if not for the No. 1 spot, then as the vice-presidential candidate. Though he cannot walk unaided and tires fast, Wallace has staged a remarkable comeback. He trails only Senator Edward Kennedy in Democratic Party presidential polls for 1976. Watergate, meanwhile, has alienated many conservatives from the Republican Party, and they may well turn to Wallace as an alternative...
...TICKET-TAKERS at the Performance Center, passing around a lot of green paper the other night at the Waylon Jennings concert, were imitating and making fun of the country nasal twang wafting through the door. They piped in folk-rock music between the sets. Inside, in the midst of longhairs, a middle-aged housewife from Ayre rocked back and forth to "Me and Bobby McGee" and a man in his sixties danced to "Six Days on the Road." Cambridge has never been much for country and western music--and this is rare for a college town. But this week...
...another one. For instance, on Christmas Day 1972, he tongue-lashed the owner of the Washington, D.C., theater where The Godfather was playing just after the poor man had been released from an intensive-care unit following a heart attack. His offense: undercharging the public by $2 a ticket...
...World War I vet, a past body-guard to two Massachusetts governors, a former boxing champion of the 135 pounders, Sullivan, known mostly as "Fizzy," now works at Harvard as a ticket taker. I met him at the Harvard-Yale hockey game...
...standing who wished to speak to him. "That's not nearly long enough," said Hurok, refusing to take the call. He got the message anyway. Callas was canceling because of a sore throat. The 2,800 fans, some of whom had paid as much as $100 a ticket, were disappointed, even tearful, but not altogether surprised. Maria had done the same thing in London in September. Many promised to try again when the volatile soprano is next scheduled to visit New York, later in her current three-month North American tour. The turn of events may have actually raised...