Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some signs of rebellion over climbing movie-ticket prices are also appearing. When some of Atlanta's first-run theaters raised the cost of admission from $3.50 to $3.75 this summer (it has risen in New York City to as high as $5 for some movies), smaller houses in more remote shopping centers began drawing sizable crowds by cutting prices to as low as 99? for recent but hardly fresh offerings like Rocky...
Meantime, the street gives them a valuable apprenticeship in capturing the least captive of audiences. Pedestrians, after all, have their minds on bills and backaches rather than on Telemann partitas. With no investment in a ticket, they find it easiest to review a performance with their feet: they keep on walking. Hence a by-God spontaneous response is the street musicians' sweetest reward. A Seattle group called Brandywine (violin, hammer dulcimer, guitar, bass) will always cherish the moment during the Fat Tuesday celebration when its galloping rendition of the William Tell Overture so inflamed a woman bystander that...
L.B.J. related how Bobby Kennedy's Adam's apple went up and down when L.B.J. barred him from the vice-presidential ticket in 1964. "The most important thing a man has to tell you," said John son, "is what he is not telling you." L.B.J. could mimic every adversary. "Don't look out those windows," he warned his staff who were across the street the day after Kennedy's murder. "The people in the White House will think you are looking for power." When a TV reporter offended Johnson, he told an aide...
Federal Judge Irving Hill likes to recall that his uncle, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant to the U.S., went to a railroad station in New York City, plunked down his savings and asked for a ticket west, as far as his money would take him. That turned out to be Lincoln, Neb. Hill's father, arriving from the Ukraine "with less than a buck in his pocket," followed, and it was in Lincoln that Hill was born and raised...
...small town in Mississippi to the wild and woolly world of collegiate schooling. Of course, Pappa and I had different conceptions of what Harvard College was all about. To me, Harvard was principally highbrow conversations, a way to impress people at cocktail parties, and, most of all, a ticket out of the boondocks, where strict Baptist morality posed considerable obstacles to my social education...