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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: Dvorak and SIGGRAPH (rather long)
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:27:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 13:27:03 1985
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>> The biggest fiasco of the show was the showing of the 2 1/2-hour
>> SIGGRAPH '85 film. In a mad rush reminiscent of a feeding frenzy,
>> all the seats were sold out last Sunday during pre-registration-
>> much to the dismay of many of the 30,000 show-goers, some of whom
>> came from halfway around the world.
>> 
>> It didn't help that instead of running this always popular film
>> all day every day, the organizers showed it only twice. So what if
>> you came from Stuttgart just to see it.
>
If there were so many other people who wanted to see it, why couldn't
they sell enough tickets to support the Thursday show?  (I think they
only needed to sell 250 or 300 tickets, and they couldn't.)  Seems to me
there wasn't that much extra demand.

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=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
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