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...Jealousy, a solo set to Handel, he fills out the score with large, writhing moves and smaller, intimate ones that serve as a kind of punctuation. In Mort Subite (Sudden Death), made for the Boston Ballet, he uses a repeated figure in Poulenc's Organ Concerto as a signal to the dancers to turn and change direction--often leading to their abrupt disappearance from the stage...
...Antichrist's signal, the other piranha churn the water red, Poodlehead pulling some kind of obscure homoerotic significance from it, Sigmund pointing out a spelling error on the third page...
...attributed to drug- or alcohol- impaired workers. In those mishaps, 37 people were killed, 80 were injured, and more than $34 million worth of property was destroyed. In 1979, for instance, a Conrail employee was high on marijuana at the controls of a locomotive when he missed a stop signal and crashed into the rear of another train at Royersford, Pa. The accident killed two people and caused damages amounting...
...Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan's decision to make a slam-bam push for contra aid was widely regarded in the capital as a personal victory for the tenacious Buchanan, who lately has been on something of a roll. If the contra aid strategy succeeds, Buchanan's ascendancy may signal as well a fundamental shift in the way the White House does business --from political pragmatism and compromise to ideological purity and contentiousness...
Last week, however, Rome provided a strong signal that reunification is still very much a live topic and unveiled a specific suggestion on how to proceed. The information came in a four-page letter from the Pope's top ecumenical adviser, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, to the 24-member Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, which is studying reunion. The Cardinal indicated that the Vatican is prepared to end centuries of refusal to recognize Anglican priests as legitimate, a stance that was formalized in Pope Leo XIII's 1896 decree that Canterbury ordinations are "absolutely null and void." If accomplished, that change...