Word: finito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through Seattle, Horowitz, 71, suddenly found himself wedged in a supermarket turnstile. "I pushed it one way, and it would not move," he recalled. "I pushed it the other way. It would not move. I never saw anything like it. I said, 'Goodbye, I'm gone forever. Finito.' " Supermarket employees finally managed to free the imprisoned virtuoso after a 15-minute struggle with the balky machinery, however, and Vladimir survived to play before a sellout crowd at the 3,100-seat Seattle Opera House...