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...crews are there. 'The House coxes run rampant on the docks, each jostling for a place for their shell at dockside, moving boats up the ramp, down the ramp, over sleepy oarsmen, through them. It's Harvard Square gone wild...
...balconies, five trumpeters held foil pie plates up like mutes and blew. The string section looked like errant students assigned to the back of the room to repeat the same musical sentence at least 25 times. That was just about the case (see below). High on a ramp, the strings were lined up facing Assistant Conductor David Gilbert in the right rear corner of the stage. He was only one of four conductors at work. At times, James Chambers led the brass and some percussion, Larry Newland the clarinets, flutes and a vibraphone. When all hell broke loose-during...
...they do offer. The more recent work, the plaid paintings of 1971 with their tartan grid of lines laid like pastel Mondrian across a blue ground, and the irregular polygonal canvases from 1976 with rays and cuts of color, cannot even do that. One realizes, descending the ramp of the Guggenheim, that Noland is hardly a giant of cultural history. He is simply an ornamental artist and-compared with the Arab tile makers, or the French metalworkers of 1900-a limited and pedantic one. There is little resonance in his paintings. They reliably engage the eye without shifting the mind...
...this point the Clipper was approaching ramp C4. It angled at about 45� to the left to join the taxiway in a short loop leading to the head of the runway. The Clipper had passed C3, which headed back toward the terminal in a difficult turn for a big plane. Another sharp turn onto the taxiway would be required. Pan Am officials were later to explain that the crew considered C-l inactive because it was blocked by aircraft and assumed that the final turn was the "third intersection" the tower meant the plane to take. Pan Am was only...
...CONTROLLERS. From the moment he asks permission to nose his jet away from the ramp, the pilot?however silvery his hair and steady his hand?must work in close partnership with an individual who is usually a decade or two his junior and may be as outwardly nervous as the pilot is calm. As a group, air controllers are intense and self-confident men (their ranks include few women) who are polished professionals. Day after day, unheard by the passengers riding in the sky, controllers spot pilots who have strayed into trouble and direct them to safety. A disaster could...