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...British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge in 1987 -- means these kinds of vessels may be too dangerous for passenger service. There had been little reason to fear for the Estonia when it steamed out of Tallinn on Tuesday, bound for Stockholm on its thrice-weekly run. Two Swedish inspectors noted wear on the rubber seals of the large, watertight bow doors but concluded it was not serious enough to require immediate repair. The weather on Tuesday was bad -- winds gusting to 62 m.p.h., raising seas as high as 32 ft. -- but no worse than...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, sporting a full program of internationally renowned conductors and soloists, rounded out another fine summer at the Tangle-wood Music Center. Perhaps the most exciting of the thrice-weekly concerts was that involving both Bernard Haitink and Gidon Kremer...
...posh new smoke-free office building in West Los Angeles is typical. Smokers who want to light up have to go out back, near the delivery-truck entrance, and gather next to the Dumpster. Yet Susan Castor, a production assistant for a cable-TV company, has accepted her thrice-daily trips to the Dumpster with surprising equanimity. "I'd just as soon smoke out here and not have my smoke bother anyone," says Castor, who describes herself as a light smoker. "I think it should be that...
What passes for avant-garde style today is mostly recycled and tired, a thrice-dipped tea bag. There is not only a place but a burning need for art whose images are worldly, skilled, robustly embodied and keenly felt. This is what Freud, by taking nothing for granted and looking over the very brink of his perceptions, supplies...
...going to give me some guinea-pig comper to mark up. So if I was going to get some dirt about tattooing, I would need to get one myself. I couldn't, after all, pretend that my dignity prohibited me from going under the needle. I'm already marked--thrice, as luck would have it: a pathetic whale on my right ankle, a David Smith sculpture (Voltri-Bolton I) on my left ankle, and two androgynous tangoers on my left bicep...