But he also allowed some fine things to happen in the orchestra: lovely liquid smoothness from the strings in the piano concerto; playing at once sensitive and forceful in the Shostakovich, which just before its close held its breath in a wonderful timpani solo, dying away to almost nothing before the rest of the instruments came flooding back to fill the void.
That was true even before its closest ally in the Arab world, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, was driven from power, helping fuel protest movements that now roil other countries, including Jordan, which has its own peace agreement with Israel.
But in 1902, when the Mount Beacon Incline Railway — then the world's steepest passenger funicular — began operations in Beacon, N.Y., the journey was still paramount, and for the 3.5 million passengers who crowded its cars before it closed in 1978, the railway provided an inimitable ride.
Even the Lion's Head, that famous writers' watering hole, had one in its last days before it closed in 1996 (Kettle of Fish now occupies the space).
At L.U.R.E., a club on 13th street near Ninth Avenue that became known for its dress code before it closed in 2003, the code posted on the wall listed permitted items, including motorcycle jackets, chaps, codpieces, harnesses, marine and police uniforms, rubber wear, and torn Levi's.
Georgi Targamadze, the former news editor at Imedi, estimated that the channel brought in about $2 million a month in advertising before its closing.
Before it closed in February, XS Networks put out a statement on its website, protesting its innocence.
(Tabla, Danny Meyer and Floyd Cardoz's place in New York, was a notable exception before it closed in 2010).
She had three more solo shows there before it closed in 1975.
Before it closed in 2004 for remodeling, it had sometimes drawn 400,000 guests over a year.
