Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dream. Antonio Zavala, abruptly awakened in his Chicago apartment, was really seeing the head of a boa constrictor pointed menacingly toward his face. The rest of the snake, all 6 ft. of it, was being held by a teen-age acquaintance of Zavala's who hissed, "Give me your money." Zavala prudently handed over $6. The intruder, wreathed in the coils of his accomplice, fled...
...Yelena Davidova, 18, an elfin Soviet with a Dorothy Hamill haircut, on the parallel bars. Only 4 ft. 8 in., 75 lbs., she had scored a stunning 10 in the floor exercises the night before, mixing rubber-body tumbling and kiddie-porn dance routines (hip grinding to a snake charmer's song). On the bars, she was smooth rather than risqué, managing a satisfying...
Arrested were Charles (Chuck) Dederich, 67, founder of the Synanon Foundation, and two of his "Imperial Marines," Lance Kenton, 22 (son of Bandleader Stan Kenton), and Joseph Musico, 30. Three weeks before the snake attack, Morantz had won a $300,000 judgment against the controversial drug rehabilitation organization on behalf of a married couple who claimed the wife had been held captive by Synanon members...
...rivals for the love of the great warrior Solor (Anthony Dowell), who pledges himself to Nikiya over a sacred fire. Later the Rajah chooses Solor to marry his daughter. If this sounds like Aida, it is. In the ballet, both women are murderous. Gamzatti, who plants a deadly snake among flowers given to the dancer, is the successful killer, but Nikiya has ectoplasmic revenge. Her spirit appears first in a lyrical vision to Solor, and again to break up his wedding (and decimate the temple for good measure). If some of that ghostly action is reminiscent of Giselle, it emphatically...
...question nobody wanted to answer. It was the question that nobody dared answer. It threatened and sneered like a snake poised in the shadow, ready to fight with you for your life...