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...real centerpiece of the show, though, is its acrobatic troop. The 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...
There are moments during Cirque du Soleil's "Saltimbanco" when the high-tech glitz of the production threatens to swallow the charm of this genuinely talented troop. "Saltimbanco" comes equipped with a live New Age band, a light show and a smoke machine that won't quit. This accumulated wattage makes some of the stagier numbers feel more like the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza than the quirky, stylish acts for which Cirque du Soleil has won praise...
Defense Secretary Les Aspin unveiled a five-year plan to cut back on military spending and personnel. Troop numbers would shrink from 1.7 million to 1.4 million, and "Star Wars" spending would be cut from $39 billion to $18 billion. The U.S. would continue its strategy of remaining prepared to fight two regional wars nearly simultaneously, Aspin said. The Pentagon also acknowledged that it intended to purchase unnecessary weapons in order to keep production lines running...
...skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly launch surface-to-air missiles or make nighttime troop landings all but undetectable...
...does this given them exclusive rights to hold themselves up as defenders of the "sanctity of human life." We have yet to see any Winnebagos with Alabama plates bearing families of anti-abortionists past U.N. troop carriers near the besieged Bosnian town of Mostar. Yet when compared to the high-volume, state-of-the-art, blood-spattered Serbian killing machine, the unarmored Planned Parenthood is a bunch of amateurs. If these anti-abortionists truly cared about saving the largest number lives on the planet, they would have traded in their Bibles and K-Mart attire for guns and blue-helmeted...