Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Restic's always-intricate game plan was tossed out the press box window last week in the face of Ms. Nature's indiscretions, but a week of good work at Soldiers Field has produced another one which promises greater effectiveness against a tough Big Green outfit...
...majority of tickets are sold beforehand through a subscription series, in which patrons select at the beginning of the season seven events out of the offerings. The remaining tickets are sold at box offices immediately before the event. Thus, a group such as the Guarneri String Quartet is already sold out, although the performance date is March 1977. But Pierce says, "Some events really surprise me--for example Segovia never sells well in subscription, but does at the box office. Fortunately, Boston is a city most major artists want to play, and I can afford to turn down artists' agents...
...that he is still very concerned (absurdly so, considering his status) with his popularity. He is, perhaps, overly sensitive about it. A negative review in The Boston Globe many years ago prompted Horowitz to swear he'd never return to Symphony Hall. Although there are practically riots at the box office every time his recital tickets go on sale, he insists that his manager take out full-page ads in Musical America, the promotional magazine featuring young and upcoming musicians who are relatively fresh faces in the music world. The New York Times reported last week that Horowitz was more...
...oddest things show up in the Miscellany notice box. This week, for example, it was disheartening to discover a message from the Boston Museum of Science informing the general public that Charlie, the Museum's seven-year-old alligator is about to return to the Okeefenokee (sic) Wildlife Refuge in Georgia; although don't get too disappointed, because Charlie is being replaced by another baby North American alligator named Herman. Veh. This month, you can go see "The Revolution" in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., or "Victorian Boston" in the Castle on Arlington St. near...
...some reason, the Miscellany box tends to collect science announcements, which as a rule don't sound too exciting. Alan Lightman of the Center for Astrophysics is speaking on "Quasars and Collapsing Clusters" at the Cahners Theater of the Museum of Science at 8 p.m. on October 20--go right ahead if you want, but don't blame me. If I were you, I'd wait until November 10, when William Press, also of the Astrophysics Center, is speaking on "Gravity Waves and Black Holes...