Word: mason
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into and around other objects, it might look something like the dancers in the new dance company Snappy Productions. "Snappy Crayons Strikes Back," the follow-up to last year's "Snappy Crayons and Other New Dances," was choreographed under the direction of Harvard graduate George Whiteside '96 and Martha Mason in a style that emphasizes unique kinesthetic movement over formalized technique...
...second act, "Duet," performed by Martha Mason and George Whiteside, highlights the ability of this extremely talented cast. Like "Limning Twilight," "Duet" is more expressive...
...Mason and Whiteside move separately from each other, but are so aware and in tune with each other that it is as if they are one entity occasionally separated into two bodies, only to recombine in a mesh of arms and legs. They perform with a consistent ease calculated to provoke audible astonishment from the audience, beginning...
...with his dad, shot and killed an unarmed fleeing man. Richard Bachellor died as his wife and three-year-old son looked on. In 1994 a grandmother of 13 was picked up--kidnapped, in effect--by bounty hunters as she sat on the steps of her Manhattan home. Jrae Mason was 13 cm taller and weighed considerably less than the fugitive, and looked nothing like her photograph. Bounty hunters handcuffed her, and thus began a five-day escapade that ended with Mason's being turned over to the sheriff in Tuscaloosa, Ala. When she turned out to be the wrong...
...civil lawsuits that produce the most dramatic reform. Last year a federal jury in New York awarded Mason $1.2 million for her abduction to Alabama, a judgment that, though later reduced by the judge, sent a chill through the bounty-hunting community. Another family, terrorized in a Southern California Motel 6, won a $1.15 million verdict. Despite last week's deaths, damage awards like these are inexorably exerting a civilizing effect on a profession with a reputation for cutting legal corners. "The days of kicking doors and slapping whores are over," says Don Floyd, owner of Northeast Bail Bonds...