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...production. Many scenes take place within the confines of a proscenium arch. Bergman even emphasizes the theatricality of the occasion by providing a few glimpses of the performers off stage: Sarastro studying Parsifal, Papageno asleep in his dressing room and almost missing his en trance cue. Curtains rise and descend, flats rumble away to be replaced by others of equally splendid artificiality...
...four rows down from the scoreboard in right field, while Sam and his little brother sat a couple of rows down from us. The Sox were just finishing batting practice when we got there. Whenever someone like Yaz or Fred Lynn would finish hitting, a horde of reporters would descend on him for the latest quote...
...full four hours before Ford finally got into an elevator to descend to the lobby. He had been willingly detained by a local television interview, which he thought had gone nicely. The increasingly restless crowd outside had no way of knowing when he would emerge from the Post Street exit. But at 3:29 p.m. Ford strode briskly down the 14 final steps and out onto the sidewalk...
More than 17 million visitors per month are expected to descend on Washington, D.C., between now and the end of the Bicentennial celebration. But one Washington resident, a senior official in the Federal Communications Commission, has undertaken a bitter campaign to keep Americans away from their capital. William B. Ray, 67, has written to 91 of the nation's largest newspapers urging tourists to avoid Washington "this year, next year and every year until the District of Columbia and Federal Government are able to exercise a reasonable degree of control over crime...
...Honest. Mrs. Ford's forthrightness immediately stirred up a summer storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings...