Word: tallchief
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SURRENDERED. HEATHER TALLCHIEF, 33, former armored- truck driver and one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, for a 1993 heist in which she ditched her co-workers at a Las Vegas casino and drove off with some $3 million; in Las Vegas. Her lawyer said she had been "brainwashed" by her boyfriend and handed over the money to him; he's still at large...
...royalties when other troupes staged his works, recalls his onetime assistant Barbara Horgan, director of the George Balanchine Trust, which licenses performances by other companies. He formed intense bonds with his favored female dancers, making them his muses. He married four of them - Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil LeClercq - and had liaisons with others. Male or female, close or remote, most of his dancers revered their ?Mr. B.? ?I can?t say that I knew him well,? says former NYCB dancer Ib Andersen, artistic director of Ballet Arizona. ?But his ballets are part of me, his musicality...
...killing Custer on the banks of the Little Big Horn. I remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy, to Geronimo and Joe McCarthy, to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Toni Morrison, to the Declaration of Independence and Executive Order No. 1066, to Cesar Chavez and Richard Nixon, to theme parks and national parks, to smallpox and the vaccine for smallpox...