Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ticket sales are not a concern for the group, according to ball organizer Philip R. Kaufman '98. Kaufman cited a poll by the council last year saying that 65 percent of the student body would consider attending such an event...
Financial concerns aside, the ball is shaping up to be one of the largest-scale events in recent memory. After a reception in Widener Library which will be open to all members of the Harvard community, the Yard will be closed to anyone who is not a resident or ticket-holder for the ball...
Crichton built his success out of his understanding of and passion for science, technology, art, entertainment and commerce. His is one of those high-end, abstract-thinking machines, keen on contemporary social issues but able to make his interests drive book and ticket sales. That pejorative expression that has so much currency--"obviously written with a movie in mind"--requires qualification when applied to Crichton. "I think of Michael as the high priest of high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give...
...best-of-20 competition for $1 million. (The loser gets half a mil.) The championship is a co-production of the Intel Corp., the computer chip-maker, and the P.C.A., the breakaway chess organization started by Kasparov two years ago. With its heavyweight title-fight purse, a lightweight ticket price, an inspired setting and rules intended to shorten the matches, the event has been designed to reach those of us who still call knights "horsies." Until recently, says P.C.A. commissioner Robert Rice, chess was "a medieval game supported in medieval fashion." Now, quite literally, it has been given a whole...
...latest TIME/CNN poll finds that if the 1996 presidential election were held today, Colin Powell, running on the GOP ticket, would beat Bill Clinton 46 percent to 38 percent. If he ran as an Independent, facing Dole for the GOP and Clinton, Powell would also win, said those polled...