Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undergraduates can obtain tickets for the Dartmouth game in Hanover, to be played in two weekends, at the ticket office next Monday and Tuesday in exchange for--and this is a real buy--one coupon and four single dollar bills...
Repertory Gamut. For the past 16 years, however, he has managed to confine his energies to the Dallas Theater Center, where he has served as stagehand, ticket taker, director and actor, running the repertory gamut from Julius Caesar-he played Brutus-to A Streetcar Named Desire...
...motor homes complete with beds, baths, color TVs and banner-streaming antennas. Citizen's Band radios howl with rebel yells, chants and incantations: Eat 'em up, Dogs! Get 'em, Gators! Roll, Tide! The college football season has arrived. Everyone who could ferret out a ticket is going to The Game. Which The Game? It doesn't matter. The South is renewing its annual passion, and every game is The Game...
...identity from football is all we have. If we had a losing season, we'd be nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing-athletics." To participate in the quest for identity, students endure a struggle for out-of-town-game tickets that rivals a World Series. Lines form 20 hours before the ticket windows open. Patient under umbrellas, students will gladly wait out a long night and a lashing storm for the privilege of paying their...
...attract a diverse crowd that includes one-gallus retirees, peroxide mountain mamas and lonely textile workers from the nearby Cannon Mills. A crude spectator pecking order exists among fans. Families that applaud Chevrolets won't socialize with friends of the Dodge boys. Mechanic Howard Sussman buys a $4 ticket just to see the power slides. Says he: "My wife can't understand how I can fix cars all week and then spend the weekend watching them race...