Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hates children and his wife from pregnancy through delivery, has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable. Both films, says Corliss, should make the public forget all about Grant's misadventures. "The odds are that moviegoers will contribute to the Hugh Grant Defense Fund one movie ticket at a time." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
...from two months of training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, zoomed into space aboard a Soyuz capsule to begin a three-month stay on Mir--a record sojourn for an American, though nearly a year short of the Russian record. The current mission is, among other things, a ticket home for Thagard and his two Russian companions on Mir; in exchange, Solovyev and Budarin will stay in orbit to maintain Mir's nine-year record of continuous habitation when Atlantis returns to earth this week...
...clash of rock-world titans. In one corner, with more than 20 million albums sold: the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. In the other, with more than $1 billion in annual ticket sales: Ticketmaster, the powerful ticket-distribution service. Not so much boxing as wrestling, the bout has got so messy that it's hard to tell who's left in the ring...
...April the band announced it would mount a tour without Ticketmaster, which it claims has a monopolistic hold over ticket distribution to rock concerts and charges excessively high service fees. Instead, the band said it would use a newer ticket service, ETM Entertainment Network, and play some smaller, alternative non-Ticketmaster venues...
...Milwaukee shows, it turns out, are part of a local festival whose tickets are being sold by ... Ticketmaster. A Pearl Jam spokesperson said the band was simply honoring a "pre-Ticketmaster-controversy commitment" and had no future plans to use the ticket service. But a press release from Ticketmaster announced "Pearl Jam Sells Out" --before coyly explaining it referred to the shows, not the band's values. Its fans will have to judge the latter...