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...ship, obscured for weeks behind a giant scaffold, stood in full view after NASA retracted the structure. The process took place hours early, so "workers will have a head start" on final countdown procedures. The count resumed at midevening yesterday after a daylong, scheduled hold...
...revelation. The Fantastique, premiered in 1830, just three years after the death of Beethoven, is an opium-tinged odyssey through the composer's psyche as he pursued his mad passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its restless opening, brilliant ballroom scene, desolate pastorale, terrifying march to the scaffold and cackling witches' sabbath bloomed anew, while the 1839 Romeo et Juliette, Shakespeare transformed into sound, burst with hot-blooded vitality...
...vault, technicians modified a miniature remote-controlled video camera so it could be inserted into the 3 1/2-in.-wide entrance hole. The camera, originally designed to probe the interior of nuclear reactors, provided fiber- optic light without introducing any heat into the chamber. Over the site was a makeshift scaffold and the flags of Egypt and the National Geographic Society, the principal sponsor of the $250,000 project...
...Hemingway's slippage from art to publicity. "The work is the im-paw-dent thing," he says. "That's all that's going to be left. Otherwise it's just a faded photograph album with a picture of yourself with a rhinoceros head or a marlin hanging on a scaffold...
...Soviet diplomats in Washington trumped their Moscow colleagues by offering an unprecedented tour of the Mount Alto facility to display what they said were American bugging devices. As some 100 reporters and cameramen crowded into an unfinished embassy reception room, Embassy Security Officer Vyacheslav Borovikov clambered up a scaffold and pointed to a small cavity in the marble facing where, he said, a microphone had been planted. Similar hiding places were exposed in two other rooms; outside, the Soviets produced an embassy car with a locator device hidden in the dashboard...