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...lost his sight completely during the last of four operations to improve the vision in his left eye. Chen says it is "questionable" exactly what happened during the operation, but his optic nerve was destroyed, and his sight was gone...
...middle of the piece, Bellson took his most colossal solo of the evening. Never losing sight of the beat, Bellson played cross-handed, on both sides of the cymbals, all over the set, with four sticks--you name it, he did it. The quintet returned to "Cherokee" for a recap, but Nash couldn't resist quoting "Cottontail" one more time before the tune was done...
...Bayer's promotional tape as art (Cockroaches, 1993-94) is creepily potent. Her monitors are set up on the lowest level of the ICA, in a corner draped in black, appropriately damp and smelling faintly of sewage. Cockroaches accomplishes a disturbing transference of emotion. Already slightly queasy at the sight of six inch cockroaches, the viewer is easily horrified by the appearance of Germans in gas masks speaking calmly and matter-of-factly about efficient modes of extermination. Bedarski's parallel is clever, subversive and electric...
...most dramatic moment of the opening day came later, when Marcia Clark displayed graphic photographs of the bodies. Judge Lance Ito ruled these pictures off limits to television viewers, and the reactions of those present in the courtroom explained why. Ron Goldman's father Frederic wept at the sight of his son's slashed and bloody corpse up on the 87-in. video monitor, while Nicole Brown Simpson's three sisters cried quietly; Simpson's mother Eunice could not look. When Ito at last called a recess, the Browns and the Goldmans clasped hands...
...memorial ceremony. Polish officials, unyielding, dismissed the complaints as reflecting the ``personal ambition'' of individual Jewish leaders. Some Jews refused to attend the Polish ceremonies; others organized instead a Jewish observance a day earlier, on Thursday. At one point Jewish and Polish demonstrators even clashed, shouting and shoving within sight of the camp's guard towers as ceremonies were being held...