Word: cannoneering
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Last week the value of shares of Cannon Mills jumped from $29 to $35 after Pacific Holding Corp., headed by Los Angeles Investor David Murdock, proposed to buy Cannon's stock for $40 a share. On last week's weak Wednesday, the most actively traded New York Exchange stock was MGIC, the largest U.S. private insurer of residential mortgages. Though it sold for only $43 five weeks ago, MGIC stock was up to $49 last week because the Baldwin-United Corp., maker of Baldwin pianos, has offered to pay $52 a share as part of a takeover move...
...strange and oppressive atmosphere was accentuated by the extreme cold. A small demonstration outside Solidarity's regional headquarters had been quickly dispersed by police manning a water cannon, a particularly effective weapon in below-zero weather. But the oppressors were as cold as the oppressed. In parts of the city, soldiers stood around small kerosene fires, stomping on the ground and rubbing their hands...
...last time, there is talk of other fairs carrying on Danbury's traditions. But the old-timers know better: they pack up their ribbons and memories with quiet resignation. Who could forget "The Great Wilno," a leather-clad stuntman who in 1929 was shot out of a cannon over the heads of startled spectators. Or the drenching downpours of 1939, or the clear, crisp days that came to be known as "Leahy's Luck." Or even Cheetah the chimp, who ate hot dogs, swilled soda and adjusted her sunglasses in 1968. Says Vivian Husted, 75, a handsome, white...
John Bellucci's Macheath is frequently too endearing a rogue. Bellucci fails to put sufficient distance between Macheath and the audience, even when addressing them directly, as in the Cannon Song, a duet Macheath sings with Tiger Brown. Bellucci's classical, stylized acting makes Macheath an adventurer, a guise sympathetic to the audience. But the actor strengthens in the second half of the opera, after Macheath has made his decision to visit the whores on Thursday as usual, knowing the police are after him. He acquires the stature that comes with a man headed compulsively to his doom: Bellucci dispenses...
DIED. Edmondo ("Papa") Zacchini, 87, Italian-born circus clown credited with developing the perilous, modern "human cannonball" act in 1922; in Tampa. Zacchini broke his right leg the first time he used a spring-powered cannon to hurl him 20 ft When he came to the U.S. to join the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus in 1930, he had already designed compressed-air cannons that could send him or one of his six brothers flying 100 ft through the air, although by the time he stopped performing the stunt in 1934 he had suffered four other leg fractures...