Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote?thus giving New York the most liberal abortion law in the U.S. The young, the press and most women cheered, but Michaels knew what was in store. Roman Catholics were incensed; even fellow Democrats denounced his action. In the June primary, Michaels' constituents erased him from the Democratic ticket, virtually denying him a sixth legislative term...
...Concept. It will take months to untangle the finances of the nonrock festival. The promoters reportedly sold 30,000 tickets at $20 each. The ski-resort owners, Herman and Louis Zemel, broke with the promoters, a group of 15 men headed by Joseph Middleton of Atlanta and incorporated as Middleton Arts International. The Zemels accused the organizers of planning to provoke violence at the festival and then to profit by filming the disorder. The Zemels said they had some $60,000 of the ticket money put away in escrow...
HOLLYWOOD continues to colonize Youth, as in past years, exploiting our styles, our ideas, our culture, as if it has the right to grab up and sell back to us what we have created. This year they are peddling our Revolution too, at $3 to $4 a ticket. Aren't the ironies strikingly obvious by now, even to the capitalists? Or could they be just crazy enough to destroy themselves for a little more of our gold? Sadly, they are not. Bourgeois democracies expect and even rely on a certain amount of safe "dissent" they can absorb gracefully and thus...
...pivotal character, Vittorio, is a millionaire running on the democratic socialist ticket. A moderate, pinned between his Maoist brother and his conservative sister; his campaign for an education post is a dolorous exercise. But the conflict is set only superficially in political terms. Bellocchio wrote that the film was conceived in a geometric pattern, on parallel lines. The film's structure emphasizes the interconnections between layers rather than their contribution to an overall theme. The politicial layer lies nearest the surface, but it is little more than a hand-puppet to the film's sexual politics. It is oddly believable...
...meet him on the street and stop for a six-hour conversation." He wrote enough letters to the editor to fill a book. Norman Mailer was still a schoolboy when Newman ran against Fiorello La Guardia in 1933 for mayor of New York City on a Writers-Artists ticket. He lost, of course. "My politics," he later recalled, "went toward open forms and free situations...