Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Comet convertible and headed for Fort Eustis in Virginia. At a drive-in near Newport News, Va., the waitress came out and told them that because they were black, they would have to park across the street. Instead, they drove on. He can still recall every detail of the scene...
...contrast to the gaudy old Garnier, the 2,700-seat Bastille opera is designed to be austerely functional -- a bleak concrete, stainless-steel and glass oval, with gray-black granite floors and walls and five revolving stages for fast changes of scene. "The whole idea of this opera house is that it is very sober," according to architect Carlos Ott, 42. "You don't have decoration inside the hall. The decor is on the stage...
...took a fire department rescue team about 10 minutes to free the man's hand from the door of the trash compacting room. Police also brought a bolt cutter to the scene to help with the rescue effort...
...right direction. But it is likely that the country's colleges will be plagued by prejudice as long as students, complacent in their insensitivity and ignorance, feel that parents, politicians and even professors find such attitudes acceptable. Observes Joseph Duffey, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the scene of several racial incidents: "Our campuses are a testing ground for some of the resentments young people sense are out there in society...
...Harvard Square Theater on Church St. was evacuated because of extensive smoke yesterday evening, as three fire engines, two trucks and one rescue unit were called to the scene, a Cambridge firefighter said yesterday...