Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood is loudly hostile to the whole concept. It thinks ads will turn the public off movies in general and crowd out their own trailers for upcoming films. But theater owners, who have been hurt by rising costs, say the ads will hold down ticket prices. They stand to get up to three-quarters of the loot, and they say they will happily accept commercials-if the public does not protest. "No audience reaction would be favorable audience reaction," says Larry Gleason, executive vice president of the Mann chain, which has 300 houses in 26 states. It sounds like...
...Saturday night we're talking about hockey. When I went to last week's game against U. of Vermont the guards wouldn't let me in just because I didn't have a ticket. Eventually I did get in but had I arrived on time I would have been decapitated by a puck that landed in the space reserved...
With a jazz trio providing his backup, he begins stitching together the blue-collar bromides, raunchy puns and gritty street lingo that characterize his verse. "It's cold out there/ colder than a ticket taker's smile/ at the Ivar Theater, on a Saturday night," he chants in a voice that sounds like a bad exhaust. The Ivar Theater is a two-bit Hollywood burlesque house where he has spent more than a few evenings...
...Bryant's charge that "conventions have been totally inhibited from booking us." Bryant still performs around the country, singing and speaking at conventions, church meetings and conservative get-togethers. Sometimes she seems to be benefiting from the furor. When she was picketed in St. Petersburg last week, lagging ticket sales perked up; she played to a full house of 2,000, and 200 people were turned away. She acknowledges that the fight has hyped sales of her eighth book, The Anita Bryant Story, in which she stresses, in evangelical terms, her personal relationship with God. She also writes...
...inauguration of regular transatlantic passenger service in 1976. Last week the Soviet Union belatedly entered the supersonic sweepstakes by initiating regular Tu-144 flights on a little-traveled run between Moscow and Alma-Ata, an industrial city of 860,000 near the Chinese border. Price of a one-way ticket on the once-a-week flight: $113. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was the first Western passenger to step aboard the supersonic transport on its inaugural flight and filed this report...