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...GOOD INTENTIONS could be staged it would be "hats-in-the-air, heart-in-the-mouth time" for the American theatre: the American Premiere Stage has managed to hoist its flag and sail out in search of American playwrights to produce--those orphans adrift in our media-swamped culture. I assumed the greatest obstacles confronting the APS would be castrating cuts in federal arts spending, the reluctance of audiences and corporations to take a chance on new and experimental works, and, as anyone who has ever slogged through a heap of unsolicited playscripts can attest, a shortage of talent...
...surprising that its virtues are brilliance and color, enhanced by characteristic American precision. Ozawa, music director since 1973, describes the sound as "very exact, very clean. It uses subtlety rather than power. It is very colorful." The B.S.O. plays great romantic symphonies and the orchestral showpieces of Strauss, Hoist and Respighi very well, especially in the flattering confines of Symphony Hall. Musicians agree that the acoustical warmth of the auditorium contributes to the orchestra's quality. "It gives a rich amber sound to the strings," notes Boston Pops Conductor John Williams. Agrees Ozawa: "The hall does something...
...densely populated old part of Kabul, numerous houses are flying red banners. There is nothing ideological about them. It is an Afghan custom to hoist a green or blue flag if someone in a household has died, a red one if death occurred by unnatural causes, "such as murder or in war," as a resident explains...
...seas, a rotting ship. The Doria was a weird wreck, very unforgiving." After a week of clearing debris from the first-class foyer and purser's office, the team found two safes. The divers were able to free one, a Bank of Rome safe, with acetylene torches and hoist it on board. They also solved a question that had long haunted Gimbel: Why had the ship gone down so swiftly? Descending through the hulk, Gimbel and Diver Ted Hess cut a hole in a duct and pushed down past three decks to the generator room, squeezing through silt...
Whether the flights of Columbia and its sister ships now under construction become as commonplace as more earthbound commuter runs depends on how the spacecraft checks out during the coming weeks. Shortly after the Boeing landed, the shuttle was lifted off its back by a giant hoist that NASA, in characteristic jargon, calls a mate/demate device. Columbia was then towed to its processing hangar, where it will undergo stem-to-stern examination and overhaul...