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...sank during the afternoon, the entire rally slowly drifted across the huge concrete plaza in an effort to stay...
...audiences, the most obvious pleasure is Roche and Dinkeloo's stunning design. Entering from the plaza, which the complex shares with the rest of the arts center, patrons come into a great glass tent, held up by concrete and steel girders. The effect is both dramatic and exhilarating. The sense of excitement is heightened as visitors walk up to a second level, which curves around the Stage and offers - smog permitting - views of the Rocky Mountains. The feeling is like that on the promenade of an ocean liner, and in warm weather doors will be opened to an outdoor...
...Denver Symphony. Both buildings are admirable but in disquietingly different ways. It is unfortunate that the same architect was not assigned to both. The disunity may be less noticeable, however, when the 76-ft.-high glass Galleria, which now leads to both entrances, is extended to cover the entire plaza. Shops and restaurants will soon be opened along the sides of the 60-ft.-wide Galleria, and eventually the city's dreary downtown may be provided with some of the street life it now lacks...
...concert date in Cincinnati during the first week of an 18-day blitz of the East and Midwest, The Who found itself performing after a crowd stampede that killed eleven people. The tragedy took place outside Riverfront Coliseum as thousands of kids holding unreserved seats charged across a concrete plaza toward two unlocked entrances. The group had not yet come onstage. "If it had happened inside," said Townshend, "I would never have played again." The musicians could not be blamed and, indeed, did not learn what had happened until after the concert. They were shattered, and, for a time, considered...
...early evening there were 8,000 people, most holding general admission tickets, massed in the coliseum plaza near the west gate. By 7, the doors had still not been opened. The crowd, past patience, pressed closer together. Danny and Connie Burns were among them...