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...even matchbooks, ``the snitch,'' said intelligence sources, ``tells the R.S.O. Yousef has just got back from Bangkok, and he's getting ready to leave for Peshawar.'' After Yousef was apprehended at the Su Casa Guest House, he was bundled on to a military 707 jet and flown to Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York. He made the quick flight into Manhattan on a Port Authority Sikorsky S-76A, finally returning to the scene of his most infamous exploit and the site of his arraignment and future trial. ``We got lucky,'' said a Justice Department official...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566-1401. Through June 4. "Dennis Miller Bunker and His Circle" features more than 30 works of Bunker and some of the most celebrated names in American painting in the late 19th century...
Sunday Concert Series. PresentsMusicians from Marlboro performing Haydn Trio 101for Viola, Tenor Viola and Cello; Hindemith Octetfor Winds and Strings and Beethoven's Septet inE-flat Major, Op. 20 Isabella Stewart GardnerMuseum, 1:30 p.m. $2 for students. Call 734-1359for more information...
SEVEN YEARS AGO, COMPOSER JOHN ADAMS, librettist Alice Goodman and director Peter Sellars rocked the opera world with Nixon in China. A number of provocative operas based on the lives of the still living or recently deceased followed, and now composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie continue the trend with Harvey Milk, currently in its maiden run at the Houston Grand Opera. But where Nixon took someone who had become a cartoon devil and made him into a man, Harvey Milk takes a fairly ordinary man and makes him into a cartoon saint...
...looked good -- if you discount the "boggle" factor. This is a psychological effect Stewart Brand describes in The Media Lab, his 1987 book about M.I.T.'s cutting-edge research facility. It's a sensation familiar to anyone who has spent a day at a high-tech trade show or an hour with a fast- talking computer salesman. Too much happens too fast. There is too much hand waving, too many new things with new names. "The potential for being bamboozled," writes Brand, "is total...