Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homes were bulldozed for the fair moved in, swelling the waiting list for El Vacie's promised houses. At the fountain, a fistfight broke out between women jostling for water, and one was admitted to the hospital with a broken leg. "Expo is a disaster for the poor," says Miguel Angel Moreno, a local Human Rights Association volunteer. "It drained money from social programs and doubled our cost of living...
...work was carried out under the supervision of the Getty's director, Miguel Angel Corzo, a Spaniard. When he began six years ago, he faced a formidable task. Paint was flaking and chunks of plaster were detached from the limestone walls. Insects nested in corners. Egyptian officials had glued large squares of cloth to the walls to prevent them from collapsing and had suspended a net to catch portions of falling ceiling plaster...
Each night Miguel will attempt the quad only once. The uninitiated observer sees only a blur of sequined tights, tucked, spinning, floating up there like a soap bubble before gravity resumes and the jumper's hands lock with the catcher. There he goes, now it's over...
...Miguel has an 80.6 percent success rate with the quad. One night out of five the grip with brother Juan is not sure, fingers do not clutch wrists, and for one sickening instant Miguel drops toward the ground. The knot in your stomach rips apart, and you think that is has finally happened...
Last Thursday we thought it had finally happened to Miguel. Juan missed the catch. This happens one night out of five, but we didn't know that then. Miguel landed safely in the net, and we cheered. Television has done great damage to the circus business. The old circus owners knew that familiarity breeds poor ticket sales. They kept their side-show freaks from entering town so residents could not stare for free. The feats of the acrobat or juggler on the glowing screen seem disconnected from reality. Anything is possible on television, and the difficult appears commonplace...