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...drama is about loss and negation, so, understandably, Beckett prescribes the simplest production possible. Director JoAnne Akalaitis stages the A.R.T. Endgame in a subway tunnel filled with metal barrels, debris, and a putted subway car. The subway lights, and those of the wrecked car, still illuminate the tunnel. Contrary to Beckett's designs, incidental music by Philip Glass introduces and embellishes the production...
...Kendall Square subway station, where they quietly spread grease all over the tracks. The next morning, the first train that pulled into the station hit the grease and skidded right through the other side, taking its passengers to an unscheduled stop in the middle of a darkened tunnel. When the motorman backed up to see what had happened, the train slid through the station in the other direction as well. The ensuing snarl is supposed to have tied up transit officials and straphangers for hours...
Controversy over the dump began several years ago when testing during construction of the MBTA Alewife station revealed napthalene and soil so acidic it had to be removed for fear it would eat through the 18-inch thick concrete walls of the subway tunnel...
...Museum has explored the alternative of building a tunnel to connect the buildings, but rejected the idea because it was impractical and expensive. Because of the water, telephone and sewage lines buried beneath Broadway, a tunnel could be no more than eight feet high and would be placed so deep underground that the general public would not be able...
...prosecution charges that Masselli and Galiber conspired with top Schiavone executives, including Donovan, to inflate the value of work that Jo-Pel claimed to be doing on the subway project. One tactic, Merola claims, was for Jo-Pel to bill Schiavone more than $90,000 a month for "renting" tunnel-digging equipment that Donovan's company let Jo-Pel use free of charge. Schiavone officials passed these bogus rental bills along to the New York City Transit Authority, which then paid Schiavone. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed that Jo-Pel had done...