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DIED. Theodore Ward, 80, Louisiana-born, Chicago-based playwright whose critically acclaimed major works (Big White Fog, Our Lan') not only depicted racial oppression in America but also sought to create heroic black protagonists; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Like a championship team, a great orchestra executes its tasks with precision, élan and grace. String sections attack and release a note together, blending their sounds to form a single smooth line. Woodwinds have a distinctive character that lets them stand out against the full orchestra, yet merge back into it when necessary. Brass players keep their often recalcitrant instruments under beguilingly complete control; when a trumpeter reaches for a high note, there is no uncertainty that it will come out right. Overseeing all this is the music director, who balances the orchestra's component parts and gives...
...corruption issue, he has no chance of winning. The New York Times jumped into the act last month with three long articles portraying White's career as approaching a tragic end thanks to his machine Time magazine chimed in with a similar piece on January 3 Globe columnist lan Menzies then summed up the prevailing media wisdom last Thursday. "If he does not run, he will be remembered, barring any indictment, for what he did for the city, which is not inconsiderable. If he runs, and gets slaughtered, that's what history will remember...
...Middle East" closed out of town last week. In and out of hospitals since arriving in Israel a fortnight ago-first for a breathing problem, then following a minor car accident-the actress, surrounded by her courtiers, braved her way through early rounds of meetings with a professional élan that would have warmed the heart of Eleonora Duse or, for that matter, Philip Habib. Swathed in a neck brace and with bandaged leg and finger, Taylor, looking a bit like someone who had been wounded in the Lebanon fighting, persevered to keep her appointment with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem...
With only 11 minutes of play left in the first half. UMass coach Gelf Gettler, desperate to score and gain momentum for the second half of play pushed three Minutemen up closer to the Harvard goalmouth. But sweeper Frank Ricapito and stopper lan Hardington half off UMass strikers Michael Gibbons and Kayvan Khatami, sending the ball back to the Crimson attact...