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...this time by thick wire at about mid-thigh. While I remember being lifted over this boundary as a small child, as I got older, I had not even noticed hopping over it on the way into the park. Now, in another moment of grumbling, I got down to slither underneath...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Adding Insult to Injury | 7/18/1995 | See Source »

...first character in the boat. As a tall leggy brunette of wealth, Nosal embodies the swank decadence of 1940s glamour. She's tougher (and taller) than most of the men. Only once does she loose her cool, when she slaps another passanger across and then has to slither back to him for reassurance. She seduces Kovacs (Dylan ) but the intimacy between them seems so forced...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Lifeboat Floats, May Sink Audience | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...first and best of these acts, the Tchelnokov family, performs a breathtaking set of contortions. Anton Tchelnokov, age eight, seems to have inherited all of the bizarre flexibility and uncanny strength of his parents; his skinny little frame is apparently composed of some fiber that allows him to slither snakelike and twist himself into pretzelian shapes. At one point, his father holds this spindly little tyke--by the feet--parallel to the ground, ribs sticking out and grin plastered to his face, for several frightening seconds. Although their act verges on the grotesque, this family delivers the most graceful...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Cirque du Soleil Offers A Vision of a Better Bigtop | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...accounts, Wills was a hands-on executive. He stole many of the cars himself in front of suburban row houses on the busy streets of North Philadelphia. Wills would pry a side window loose with a screwdriver, pull the glass back with his bare hands, unlock the door and slither inside. Next, he used the screwdriver to break the steering column and turn on the ignition. Popular antitheft devices like The Club, which locks a steering wheel in place, never deterred him. Most thieves spray The Club with Freon and crack it with a hammer. Wills would snip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Car Thief At Large | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

...occasional swing into Boston, while others took the opportunity to leave Cambridge for a while to visit places they didn't have a chance to see during their busy Harvard careers. A handful of seniors, who chose the travel option, split up into two cars that were slated to slither down the East coast to bask in Florida's beautiful weather. But, after both cars took a wrong turn that landed them in Philadelphia, only one kept its original agenda. Each trek turned out to be far from routine...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: WACKY WAYS TO KILL A WEEK | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

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