Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night's heroics were performed by a tiny sergeant of the Army's Strolling Strings. Without flinching, she fiddled a mere two feet from the ear of Violin Virtuoso Isaac Stern, who would play Beethoven later...
...pistol held to the woman's left temple, the right side of the youth's face caked with dried blood. In a barbaric attempt to force a ransom payment rumored to be as large as $4.2 million, the kidnapers apparently had cut off the youth's ear. If the money was not forthcoming, they warned, their two captives would be slaughtered...
Angered by the move, the abductors telephoned Laura Calissoni, 29, daughter of Anna and sister of Giorgio, and informed her that something was waiting in a trash can in Rome's Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore. There in a plastic bag the family found a severed ear that investigators believed to be Giorgio's. A second caller directed a reporter from the Rome daily Il Messaggero to another garbage can, in Piazza Barberini, where the photograph was found, accompanied by two messages. One, from Anna Calissoni, was addressed to Pope John Paul II. "I pray you," the note read...
...episode was reminiscent of the kidnaping of the grandson of Oil Tycoon John Paul Getty in Rome in 1973, when young Getty's ear was cut off and mailed to Il Messaggero. His family eventually paid a reported $2.8 million to his abductors. Last week's grisly find renewed debate in Italy about the wisdom of blocking ransom payments. The Bulgari and Calissoni families issued a statement to the effect that negotiations with the kidnapers would continue, suggesting that the authorities may have made it possible for the family to circumvent the magistrate's action...
...back lot. Battle, a natural-born Broadway stunner, captivates the audience with an electrifying spirit that surges from his head to all ten toes. But the other family members are often deadly serious; they express themselves in Composer Henry Krieger's capacious Tin Pan arias, which haunt the ear without paying much more than lip service to the Afro rhythms that energized his Dreamgirls score. In the final gasp of the show's schizophrenia, young Willie comes to a perverse decision about the show he has dreamed of appearing in. It satisfies his parents but not a Broadway...