... This chapter discusses a pair of events that continue to influence the politics of life and death in Colombia: the siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá by M-19 guerrillas and the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano that triggered a mudslide that buried the town of Armero. Centering on...

... overdose shortly before he was due to open the summer season at the Ice Palace on Fire Island. White and Leslie received more work in the aftermath, with Leslie eventually given preferential treatment by Bruce Mailman. During 1982 dancers started to refer to the contagion that was killing disproportionate...

... outside New Delhi, which promised investors gondola rides, a mermaid show, and India’s first aquarium. Tucked into the confection of a building façade meant to conjure the Doge’s Palace, these enticements raise the question of whether there might be room for embodiment, play, and aesthetics in a sea of...

... outside New Delhi, which promised investors gondola rides, a mermaid show, and India’s first aquarium. Tucked into the confection of a building façade meant to conjure the Doge’s Palace, these enticements raise the question of whether there might be room for embodiment, play, and aesthetics in a sea of...

... When General Hugo Banzer Suárez met with peasant leaders at the Presidential Palace in 1974, he encouraged them to cooperate with the right-wing military regime’s campaign to crush his opponents. The following extract from his speech illustrates not only state violence in the Cold War period...

... the avenging fury of a European army, this woman being none other than the Empress of China herself. Had he not witnessed the destruction wrought by these “foreign devils”—the beautiful summer palace at Peking gutted to the walls and the plundered ruin given over to the flames? The Boxer realized...

... season at the Ice Palace on Fire Island. White and Leslie received more work in the aftermath, with Leslie eventually given preferential treatment by Bruce Mailman. During 1982 dancers started to refer to the contagion that was killing disproportionate numbers of gay men as “Saint’s disease.” The Gay...

... Segal. March 8, 1930. International Womens Day mass meeting at Irving Plaza. Edith Segal and Allison Burroughs perform Dance of Solidarity. March 15, 1930. Daily Worker costume ball at Rockland Palace. Red Dancers perform American and Russian folk dances. March 16, 1930. 'The Soviet...