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...exertion of playing the Wag ner overture immediately showed one of the BSO's prime weaknesses--it can't play very loudly. It's possible that the Koussevitsky Music Shed, because of its open-air construction, dissipates the sound. Despite possible infrastructure problems, the orchestra seemed to lack a fierce fortissimo at the top of its dynamic range...
...along a quiet street. They were expecting to meet a middle-aged man from St. Petersburg. In exchange for $1 million, they would hand over an 8-in. by 8-in. metal container holding highly radioactive material. But as the traders and their client were about to make their open-air swap in mid-August, 15 police officers rushed out to grab them. The police seized the 130-lb. case emitting gamma radiation. Until a specialized laboratory can examine the material, the , police cannot be sure what it is or where it was stolen from, but they believe...
...black-masked leader of the insurgent Zapatista National Liberation Army, who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, summoned nearly 5,000 activists deep into the Lacandon forest in Chiapas state last week to deliver his campaign promise. In an open-air amphitheater hastily erected of logs, as storm clouds gathered overhead, Marcos issued a stern warning to the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. If there is fraud in the upcoming national election, he declared, there will be an explosion of protest that will shut down Mexico. Just as he stopped speaking, a powerful downpour brought the four-day gathering...
That crowd may number as many as 20,000 for the open-air concert. Cliburn's New York appearance was staged to the Metropolitan Opera House, whose cavernous hall seems intimate when compared to the expanse of Great Woods. Hopefully, the necessary amplification of the sound will accurately represent the skill and finesse of the musicians...
...blockade has proved anything but airtight. An estimated 10,000 Haitians cross the Dominican border each day to buy fuel, which they lug back in plastic jugs or pulley across ravines. At the Malpasse border crossing east of the capital, wooden fishing boats openly ply barrels of illegal gasoline and diesel from an open-air depot on the Dominican side of the island...