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...house, and Rio went inside. When he came out, says Matzorkis, he was "white as a sheet." They notified the San Diego sheriff's office, whose deputies came in expecting a minor emergency at most and found themselves removing 39 corpses in what was about to become a media circus...
...Crash of 1929, which bankrupted a number of the theater owners, turning legitimate stages into burlesque houses and movie theaters. Even in Giuliani's youth questionable entertainments were a staple (the future mayor could have paid to see a man eat live mice at Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus). The postwar exodus of the city's middle class continued the block's slow skid into porndom...
Inspired by and largely based on writings done by people in their 20s and early 30s, Cantata 2000 is, in Swados's words, a "circus of words." She hopes it portrays "what it's like to be twenty-something and live as the millenium is being pushed in your face...
With 150 or so patrons, the Otherside Lounge was half full when the latest bomb went off, without warning, shortly after 10 p.m. "Everybody just froze," bartender Rhonda Armstrong told CNN. "It sounded like a cannon in a circus." A rescue worker reported treating a woman with a nail driven into her shoulder, leaving a wound "as big as a nickel." One victim underwent surgery at a nearby hospital and was said to be in stable condition...
Despite these problems, much of Woyzeck is striking and visually transfixing. A scene at the circus has a Barker (D'metruius Conley-Williams) preaching of double-natures, un-idealized reason and the sand dust and slime of man. A drunkard's monologue of earthly evil and the futile existence of man blends the tragic and the absurd. A dance-hall dream of Marie and a Drum Major, complete with droning music, torments Woyzeck and his remembrances...