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...slaughter was led by 1987 'Shmen of the Year Bruce Burkley, who copped the award from his teammates last week...
...time the evening had ended, though, many were left wondering whether the production was anti-Nazi or anti-Semitic. Schoenberg's libretto makes an explicit extended centerpiece out of the episode of the Golden Calf: gold is collected and formed into an idol; a ritual slaughter of animals is followed by a sacrifice of Four Naked Virgins; there is an orgy of drunkenness, sexual license and suicide. By forsaking emotionally neutral biblical robes for specific ghetto mufti (only Moses, portrayed by Bass-Baritone Theo Adam, is outfitted in Old Testament garb), Ponnelle risked having the quarrelsome Jews appear like characters...
...armed men disguised as soldiers appeared and rounded up eleven miners and guaqueros. Forcing them to lie face down in the gritty black soil, the gunmen coolly shot and killed their victims one by one, then escaped into the verdant hillside. When real Colombian soldiers arrived to investigate the slaughter, they got no information from local villagers. Though many people heard and saw the shootings, none would admit it for fear of meeting a similar fate. The official conclusion: the incident was just another in a long line of vendettas among the thousands of emerald hunters afflicted with "green fever...
...West freaks came to rely on. Nowadays the shop has even become a stop on the tour-bus routes out of Tucson. Her customers aren't the sort whose taste runs to Zane Grey -- no, they are more likely looking to flesh out a study of, say, Texas John Slaughter with a document first published when the century was young. Winifred either has it, will find it or will spin out of control trying. Such work kept her pushing on during her toughest trial, the death of her husband four years...
...Slaughter on 57th Street," as some started calling it, raised an impassioned outcry. New CBS Chief Executive Officer Laurence Tisch roiled staff emotions further when he tried to shift responsibility for the layoffs to News President Howard Stringer. "I never said to Howard, 'We have to cut the budget at the news division,' " he told the New York Times. Stringer was aghast. After a two-hour meeting between the two, Tisch, who had suggested cutting the news budget by up to $60 million, issued a memo admitting that Stringer proposed the cuts only as an alternative to bringing...