Word: cid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also charged in the 12-count indictment were 15 others, including cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria and a top Noriega aide, Capt. Luis del Cid. Cartel leader Jorge Ochoa Vasquez is mentioned in the document, but was not indicted...
...three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price of admission is free, the two drinks usually required are not (tab: $6.50 each), and the "entertainment is degustibus -belly dancers at the Casbah, simulated live sex at El Cid, and female impersonators at Finocchio...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM is the El Cid of the musical theater. He oversteps bounds, and the audience excuses him because his work is so good. The musical quality of Side by Side compels audiences to overlook the fact that the evening constitutes a self-conceived monument to the artist. There is nothing new or creative in Side by Side, a revue of songs from musicals for which Sondheim wrote lyrics and some of the music, punctuated by explanations and anecdotes slipped in by the show's narrator...
...evening ends surprisingly quickly considering the show's line up of 28 songs. The audience hardly has enough time to consider what a success has resulted from Sondheim's self-congratulatory musing. In the end, it didn't matter how El Cid achieved his greatness, and it doesn't seem to matter how Sondheim arrives at his. It seems a bit of a shame, though, that while some audiences enjoyed his talent when he first presented these songs, his earlier musicals have not achieved the popularity of Sondheim in repetition...