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Your tale of two troubled banks [May 12] does a great injustice to two remarkable men: Robert Abboud and Harvey Kapnick. To characterize their association as "Frankenstein's monster meeting Dracula" is inaccurate and unjust...
Farther away from the mountain, Northwesterners who were never in any danger heard what many at first thought were sonic booms and then saw a spectacular-and frightening-drama in the sky. Said Harvey Olander, a retired geologist who now cultivates a 40-acre apple orchard outside Yakima: "I was working on an irrigation ditch. The sky got dark, and I thought we had a hailstorm coming. Then it got deathly still, and all you could see through the darkness was the purple-pink glow of sheet lightning." Said Chuck Taylor, a reporter for the Tri-City Herald in Pasco...
...story is a boggler. Nikiya (Makarova), a bayadére, or temple dancer, and the imperious Rajah's daughter Gamzatti (Cynthia Harvey) are rivals for the love of the great warrior Solor (Anthony Dowell), who pledges himself to Nikiya over a sacred fire. Later the Rajah chooses Solor to marry his daughter. If this sounds like Aida, it is. In the ballet, both women are murderous. Gamzatti, who plants a deadly snake among flowers given to the dancer, is the successful killer, but Nikiya has ectoplasmic revenge. Her spirit appears first in a lyrical vision to Solor, and again...
Dowell flew over Solor's ambiguous emotions, relying mostly on his light leaps and exquisite musical phrasing. Harvey, who is only 23, lacked the authority to make Gamzatti believable. She seemed relieved when she could forget acting and just dance. Helped by Dowell's impeccable partnering, she was convincing as a ballerina of the future. Playing Nikiya, Makarova mastered all the problems set by La Bayadére: drama, poetry, virtuosity...
...square-dancing party one warm summer evening in Berlin, Harvey was perspiring profusely under a heavy tweed sports jacket but rejected all suggestions that he take it off. 'Can't,' he growled, flipping open the jacket to reveal a pearl-handled revolver strapped under each sweaty armpit. Why not check the guns at the door? 'Can't,' Harvey growled again. 'When you need 'em, you need 'em in a hurry...