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...wait a minute - or, rather, a day. The numbers that shape box-office reports like this are announced each Sunday at noon, before anyone's so much as bought a ticket for today's shows, and are therefore based only on Friday and Saturday ticket sales. The prediction of final weekend grosses thus involve much entrail-reading, analysis of the success of earlier films in the same genre and the possible use of Ouija boards. The tense to be used in these stories really shouldn't be the past ("won") but the future perfect ("will have") or, more cautiously...
...problem is that these groups have been hit in all three of their main revenue streams. For many of them, audiences are down sharply, because in a recession a theater ticket or concert seat can seem like an indulgence. Meanwhile, with corporate profits tanking and charitable endowments badly deflated, donations and underwriting have also been drying up. And as state and local governments contend with huge deficits, arts spending has been a major casualty. In Michigan, where the struggling Detroit Institute of Arts recently laid off 20% of its staff, the 2010 budget proposed by Governor Jennifer Granholm would...
...imagine themselves being the central character in two stories. In the first story, they graduate from college and then find a job with a major company that has a well-appointed lobby and swank office furniture. In the second story, the participants are asked to imagine losing a ticket to a concert but then finding it and heading out to the show. The first story is designed to prime readers with an intensified desire for prestige; the second story has no such effect...
...Football Club was so busy raising the money to compete that its players did not see their own victory coming.They scrambled, they begged, and they even called on rugby alumnus Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 to raise the $10,000 for plane ticket to California. They pleaded with the Undergraduate Council for additional funds, but to no avail. The Harvard Athletic Department even refused to subsidize the ruggers—after all, they played a mere club sport.But under the tutelage of graduate student Martyn E. Kingston, the “fun-loving?...
...home game against the New York Knicks in the early ’80s, the crowd of raucous Boston fans had no qualms flaunting their hometown pride. But neither did a young Eliot Spitzer, a native New Yorker and student at Harvard Law School who sat among the season ticket holders shamelessly cheering the Knicks and brazenly booing the crowd’s clear favorite...