Word: croix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Artistic Director Gilles St. Croix and Choreographer Debra Brown drill the cast regularly, not just on the complex movements involved but also on the artful commotion as one act swirls into the next. When the teeterboarders have finished (for some marvelously zany reason, they appear as penguins carrying briefcases), their boards must be danced lightly out of the ring. The tightwire supports must waft amusingly into the ring. Now, precisely on cue, Antoine the wire walker plays a soothing tune on his oboe for his nervous partner Agathe. Off to the side, Hand Balancer Amelie Demay, 19, shows a younger...
When four French officials and 17 sailors set off two weeks ago into rough Newfoundland seas aboard the trawler Croix de Lorraine, they hooked some trouble. The crew was arrested for illegally fishing in Canadian waters, and clapped in jail for 48 hours. Last week Paris recalled its Ambassador to Canada for "consultations," and passport and customs officials delayed Canadian visitors for hours at French airports...
When the lanky prisoner aboard a New Year's Eve flight from St. Croix to New York City complained of feeling sick, one of his three guards escorted him to the lavatory. The prisoner emerged brandishing a snub-nosed handgun. He disarmed his guards--two of whom had black belts in karate--and ordered the pilot to fly the American Airlines DC-10 to Cuba. Thus Ishmail Muslim Ali, 37, formerly known as Ishmael La Beet, once again made headlines as the Virgin Islands' most notorious criminal...
...sent shock waves through the Virgin Islands in 1972 when he and four accomplices mowed down eight people at a golf course in St. Croix. Because of the Virgin Islands' inadequate prisons, he was jailed at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa. He had returned to the Virgin Islands two months ago to settle an old legal matter...
Except for trips to St. Croix, there is no indication the Zaccaro family traveled widely, except on business, or entertained expensively. They have paid off the mortgages on their Forest Hills and Fire Island houses, purchased in the 1960s...