Word: meridians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threatened nuclear disaster), Decatur, Ala. (armed Ku Kluxers on the rampage), and Meridian, Miss, (serious flooding...
...Meridian, Miss...
...dance may not leave the audience time to blink. Polaris is a bold conceit in which the choreography is repeated but the performers, music and lighting shift. In Cloven Kingdom, a satire on modern manners, the dancers slide between the human and animal kingdoms. The bright costumes of Post Meridian seem to make their own choreography. In Esplanade, one of Taylor's most popular works, there is no traditional dancing at all, but rather a dizzying series of walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best-known male...
Last week in Indianapolis, Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a sometime car salesman who had hoped to make his fortune in real estate, was mad as hell, and he decided not to take it any more. He walked into the Meridian Mortgage Co., seized President Richard Hall, 42, wired the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun to Hall's neck and led him into the street to begin a 63-hour odyssey of personal fury and public terror...
...then commandeered a patrol car and forced Hall to drive to Kiritsis' two-room flat in Crestwood Village West, seven miles away. Once barricaded in his apartment with Hall as hostage, Kiritsis warned the police that the place was booby-trapped with dynamite. Then came his demands. From Meridian, he wanted immediate cancellation of a $130,000 mortgage that he had taken out months before in the hope of developing a 17-acre plot in Indianapolis into a shopping center. The loan was due on March 1, but the development was a failure. The reason, according to Kiritsis: Meridian...