61.   After six years as artistic director, she was fired by a board of directors that was apparently unhappy with her nontraditional choice of plays.

62.   Also receiving the award is Arthur Mitchell, the founder and artistic director of the Dance Theater of Harlem, that wonderful troupe known around the world.

63.   Brokaw, an associate director at the nonprofit Second Stage theater, recommended the play to Carole Rothman, its artistic director.

64.   Bruce Steivel, who preceded Jefferies as artistic director, doubts postcolonial Hong Kong will support a Chinese version of the Royal Ballet.

65.   Brustein, artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge and critic for The New Republic, carries considerable cultural clout.

66.   Brewster is artistic director of Showcase Concerts, a performing-arts organization that includes the Royal Renaissance Singers, and Opera-Tunity.

67.   Brown, who serves as artistic director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, is featured soloist.

68.   But an honorary gold medal for lifetime achievement went to Arthur Mitchell, the artistic director of Dance Theater of Harlem.

69.   But apparently anti-Semitic comments about Daniel Barenboim, the artistic director of the Staatsoper, have created a storm unusual even by the standards of this city.

70.   But curators and artistic directors say they can recall no other recent instance of overt state intervention in a cultural endeavor here.