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...opened the scoring in the second inning when Rick Burleson's RBI double dropped into short centerfield between three Royals. Rico Petrocelli drove in Jim Rice in the fourth for Boston's second tally...
Suddenly the hall is filled with laughter. Rick starts frantically snapping pictures. Click, rewind, click, rewind, click, rewind--until the laughter softens. Then he takes the camera down from his face, and gazing at Caldwell, he breaks into a broad grin...
Caldwell raises her arms and begins to conduct. A hundred arms are set in rhythmic motion and music fills the hall. The roar grows louder as the chorus begins singing St. John's Passion. Rick snaps pictures rapidly. He switches to his long lens for closeups of Caldwell. From the balcony her facial features are indistinguishable--only the reflection of the chandelier lights in her glasses can be discerned as she bobs her head up and down in time to her deliberate hand motions...
After forty-five pictures he tiptoes down-stairs and crouches at the end of the hall, opposite Caldwell, trying for a final shot. She has stopped conducting and is listening to the singers. She gazes around the hall till her eyes meet Rick's and rest in a lethargic stare. He is frozen like a squirrel near a human but he doesn't shoot. He is waiting for her to perform again. After five minutes he gives up and walks out--he can't be late for his next assignment...
...Rick steps out into the night air, relieved Caldwell wasn't the ogre he anticipated, and he walks briskly to the Science Center. The auditorium where he is to photograph a speech by former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger '50 is almost full so he squashes out his cigarette and passes through the doors muttering, "My life is a session of half-smoked cigarettes." He moves to the front, the speech begins and Rick starts shooting...