Word: sea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the sea of Dominican flags at Fenway Park Friday night, a few of the more traditional Red Sox fans in attendance were getting their first lesson in Spanish. Pedro Martinez, Boston's new ace, was on the mound against the Cleveland Indians, and a large contingent of the city's Dominican population had arrived to lend him their vociferous support. Long before the first pitch, as Martinez warmed up in the bullpen, the chanting and cheering began, and it didn't stop until Pedro's final pitch retired David Justice to end the ninth...
...summits, and a range of hotels meet any taste and budget. The three staging areas for Huang Shan visitors are Jade Screen, whose sparsely fixtured hotel reflects its ascetic heritage as a Buddhist monastery; the Hot Springs area at the base of the mountains; and the North Sea (named not for a body of water but for the sea of clouds bathing the range). The Xi Hai and Bei Hai, located on different summits, are three-star hotels serving Chinese and Western food as well as wine and liquor from East and West. There are dormitory-style rooms with public...
...peak season, up to 30,000 tourists visit the mountains, and although the area is very large, beds do get scarce. As they have for thousands of years, crowds arise before dawn and head toward the peaks to await that magical moment when the sun rises from the sea of clouds and bathes the mountains in the radiant morning light. Huang Shan may not be exactly off the beaten path, but it is on a road well worth taking...
...with the classics. One can envision the sequence of events: the unsuspecting Shakespeare aficionado heads off to the Loeb Ex last weekend to take in a showing of Pericles. This play, being one of the late romances, naturally contains all the elements one might expect from Shakespeare's pen: sea burials, royal courtships, knightly jousting, hired assassins, tempests, poison, whorehouses, incest--incest?--basketball tournaments, stripteases, the electric slide...and, of course, pirates...
...classical music world continues to recede from the reaches of public attention, collapsing from lack of support beyond that of the silver-haired concertgoers who routinely fill Boston's Symphony and Jordan Halls. Even world-renowned orchestras from London and Berlin find themselves playing to the same sterling sea--all too often, the modern citizen instinctively sets aside any abiding appreciation for classical music, saving it for the Sunday matinees of his or her golden years. The names Yo-Yo and Itzhak ring bells for many Americans, but few would immediately recognize the virtues of pianist Max Levinson...