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...second referee, a body builder with a shaved head, is sitting bolt upright, like a naughty choirboy, at the other end of the table. The stage lights glisten off his scalp. The audience is shouting wildly now "Smoke him! Smoke him! Top roll!" Teresa has crept up to the stage. She kneels only a few feet from her brother and begins screaming encouragement...
Sociz ("Johnny") Junatanov, who worked in his father's restaurant, hired a thug in 1985 to kill his father. When the knife-wielding assailant failed, Junatanov's girlfriend crept into the hospital disguised as a nurse and injected the wounded victim with battery acid. That attempt also failed. Junatanov lined up another contract killer to finish the job -- but this time the hired assassin was an undercover Los Angeles police officer. Junatanov, 20, landed in jail. Last year a jury in Los Angeles acquitted him of all charges after hearing lurid testimony of years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse...
...plaintive solos for disillusioned women: Broadway Baby, in which an old show girl (Margaret Courtenay) recalls youthful struggles in a tinkly, ironic forerunner of A Chorus Line's What I Did for Love; Who's That Woman?, a realization by a brassy belter (Lynda Baron) of how age has crept up on her; Could I Leave You?, an outpouring of vitriol from a neglected wife (Rigg); Losing My Mind, the pathetic admissions of a suppliant lover (Julia McKenzie). Sondheim's best lyric ever is I'm Still Here, an anthem of survival that compresses four decades of social history into...
With blackened faces, North and his men crept through the dark, scarred landscape of the DMZ but could not find a single enemy soldier. North was determined to return home with the goods. Suddenly his team spied a North Vietnamese guard across the 17th parallel, inside North Viet Nam. North did not hesitate. He and a comrade stole across the border, wounded the guard and dragged him back into South Viet Nam. Mission accomplished. Keep mum about this, the lieutenant told his troops when they got back...
Something broody crept into her work. From flowers, fashioned from lint and showcased in acrylic boxes, came scenes. An intimate birthday party, with a chocolate cake, flowers and candles on the table, two figures seated across from each other, and the artist's comment: "All the romantic items -- the roses and things -- sometimes obscure the other person. There is tension between the people. But it's a birthday! You still observe it. But the food might taste like lint...