1.   But no one knows better than festival officials that corporate sponsors can be fickle.

2.   Festival officials could not be reached for comment.

3.   Festival officials, staring a potential disaster in the face, took the line that summer festivals traditionally experienced a last-minute surge at the box office.

4.   Festival officials later said she was taken to a hospital, treated and released.

5.   Festival officials said that parents of teen-age dancers in the troupe were particularly worried.

6.   From the stage, festival officials repeatedly beseeched them to move.

7.   Producers, directors and distributors are predictably reluctant to comment on why their films were not selected, for fear of offending festival officials.

8.   Some participants at a SAF-sponsored retreat of Southern folklorists in Oxford, Miss., this spring quietly viewed Smithsonian festival officials as opportunistic interlopers.

9.   That is an elusive goal, and in any case festival officials were heard to grumble that budget constraints led to compromises.

10.   Barenboim said he received a letter Monday from festival officials asking that he reconsider the program.