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...dance may not leave the audience time to blink. Polaris is a bold conceit in which the choreography is repeated but the performers, music and lighting shift. In Cloven Kingdom, a satire on modern manners, the dancers slide between the human and animal kingdoms. The bright costumes of Post Meridian seem to make their own choreography. In Esplanade, one of Taylor's most popular works, there is no traditional dancing at all, but rather a dizzying series of walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best-known male...
Last week in Indianapolis, Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a sometime car salesman who had hoped to make his fortune in real estate, was mad as hell, and he decided not to take it any more. He walked into the Meridian Mortgage Co., seized President Richard Hall, 42, wired the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun to Hall's neck and led him into the street to begin a 63-hour odyssey of personal fury and public terror...
...then commandeered a patrol car and forced Hall to drive to Kiritsis' two-room flat in Crestwood Village West, seven miles away. Once barricaded in his apartment with Hall as hostage, Kiritsis warned the police that the place was booby-trapped with dynamite. Then came his demands. From Meridian, he wanted immediate cancellation of a $130,000 mortgage that he had taken out months before in the hope of developing a 17-acre plot in Indianapolis into a shopping center. The loan was due on March 1, but the development was a failure. The reason, according to Kiritsis: Meridian...
...discipline is a common practice) and because many of them are church-affiliated, a great plus in the South. Many parents gladly send their children on long bus rides to get to the private schools. Admittedly, the academies may have eased the desegregation process to some degree. As one Meridian, Miss., white fifth-grader told his mother some years back: "There won't be any trouble; all the troublemakers have gone to the private schools...
...pioneers include State Chairman Clarke Reed, a Greenville businessman; W.D. ("Billy") Mounger, a wealthy contributor from Jackson; and Swan Yerger, a Jackson attorney. The new breed is led by Gil Carmichael, a Meridian Volkswagen dealer who ran remarkable, but losing races for Senator and Governor. Following tradition, the two factions agreed in April that the delegation would cast all of its 30 votes as a unit, based on a majority vote among all 60 members...