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...Arrival at the Loeb. Ford and VanDyke bang on the door. Three cast members of "Death of Santiago" cautiously let the two in once they see the SafeStreets reflective sashes. Apparrently, the caller has decided to go it alone but the escorts search both sides of the theater anyway. Mission aborted. The escorts head back into the rain...
...Death of Santiago, A Work in Progress...
...play loosely based on the Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Death of Santiago, written and directed by Tim Banker, goes up this weekend at the Loeb Mainstage. In this unprecedented rendition of the Nobel prize-winning author's work, the entire cast remains on stage for the performance based around the impending death of citizen Santiago Nazar. As in Marquez' novel, the entire town knows Nazar will be killed, but no one can stop the event from happening. In Banker's version, North American practicality weaves with South American magical realism to present...
...fruit. The terrorist who telephoned the U.S. embassy in Santiago on March 2 seemed to understand that, as Alfred Hitchcock showed in The Birds, the most deep-seated fears are engendered when the benign suddenly turns menacing. The saboteur had no explosives to rig, no bomb-sniffing dogs to elude, no metal detector to foil -- only some fruit and a little poison. And that was more than enough. Just two little grapes were found to have been injected with cyanide -- not enough, it turns out, to give a toddler a stomachache -- and the country was thrown into a panic...
...height of the apple panic that the Chilean fruit phobia began. The first phone call to the U.S. embassy in Santiago was followed by a more serious one on March 9. The caller said he had read in a Santiago paper that his threat was being treated as a hoax. Be warned, he said, it was no hoax. Fifty FDA inspectors were dispatched to the Almeria Star as it docked in Philadelphia. They set up tables along the pier and began examining 1,200 cases of grapes for softness, discoloration and the telltale welds caused by punctures. By Sunday...