Word: touring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kroks--currently in the middle of their annual world tour--cancelled shows in Shanghai and Beijing after the Chinese government revoked their performance permits in the wake of strained relations with...
...were scheduled to give two large performances in Shanghai, the proceeds from which were going to finance part of our tour," Krokodiloes Tour Manager Thomas W. Chalberg '99 wrote in an email message. "In Beijing we were supposed to sing in exchange for our accommodations at the Shangri-La Hotel...
...think [the tour] will be just fine," Chalberg said. "But it's inherently a risky thing, to bring a group around the world...
...friend and I recently found ourselves on tour at Cornell University, the western outpost of the Ivy League. As two college students in a gaggle of high-school seniors and their parents practically beside themselves in the "Is this the right place?" soul searching, it was a chance to go incognito and try to remember what it is we do and why people seem to fawn so easily. ("That's a Harvard student," I recall a mother telling her daughter one morning my first year as I rushed half-awake to breakfast. Her daughter wrote it down dutifully. It must...
...almost blew our cover on the first challenge. "What are your interests?" the chirpy tour guide asked, adjusting his hat while walking uphill backwards. I had long ago turned in interests for a concentration, but I managed to mumble something about history and he passed on to the eager high school students...