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...Zeffirelli had scattered Sphynxes like sugar cubes; amid palm trees, columns, temples and 200-foot-high idols, he had corralled a cast of 600 singers and dancers and ten Berber horses. There were half-naked belly dancers, Nubian slaves, blue-faced soldiers, ballet dancers painted green from head to toe. And when Radames made his second-act victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening of the Suez Canal...
...Strait of Messina, a turbulent, six-mile-wide ribbon of water that separates Sicily from the toe of Italy, has never been a popular place for water sports. It was the home of Scylla and Charybdis, the mythological monsters that wrecked ships and snatched unsuspecting seamen from their decks. And if sailors beware, swimmers positively shun the place. Only the very rash-or the very bold-venture into its treacherous currents...
...have been a zealous "pusher" of the program since that date, having distributed more than 60 of the booklets. Nevertheless, I am monumentally dismayed because all of the 60 recipients of the booklets have dropped the program, leaving me all alone at 28 toe touches, 27 setups, 39 liftings of the head and legs, 19 pushups, 500 runnings in place, and 50 deep knee-bends...
...girl glided around the open-air rink. The music leaped, and the girl leaped too-a twisting "double axel" that sent her hurtling through the air until she glided back on the ice. The music played on, and each time it soared, she soared-through intricate "flying camels," "double toe-loops" and "flying sit-spins." The performance ended. The Netherlands' Sjoukje Dijkstra, 21, smiled sweetly, acknowledging the bravos. She smiled again, less demurely, when the judges announced her score (5.9 out of a possible 6.0 points) and gave her the world's figure-skating championship for the second...
...item small enough to fit in any purse or pocket that costs only $1, yet has floors creaking under the weight of leaping 200-pounders, bedroom windows steaming with the heat of executive pushups, and dogs barking excitedly at the sight of whole families doing leg-overs, toe-touches, and rocking situps...