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...AMERICANA PASTORAL. When the citizens of a depressed South Carolina town find that the savior who will revive their cotton mill is black, the stage is set for a dramatic exploration of attitudes and tensions. But Playwright Yabo Yablonsky's formalistic approach to his story keeps the action in chiaroscuro...
...AMERICANA PASTORAL. The citizens of a deprived South Carolina town find that the savior who will revive their cotton mill is black. The town's rejection of prosperity on these terms, and the explosion that results, might have provided the occasion for a dramatic exploration of attitudes and tensions. But Playwright Yabo Yablonsky's formalistic approach to his story keeps the action in chiaroscuro...
ARLO GUTHRIE: ARLO (Reprise). In his first album, Alice's Restaurant, Woody Guthrie's boy created a piece of instant Americana: a talking blues that wrapped an antiwar protest inside a hilarious tall tale. A classic is a hard thing to live down, especially for a performer of 21. This amiable but unmemorable release-recorded live at Manhattan's Bitter End cafe -indicates that it may be some time before Guthrie matches Restaurant again. Meantime, his satire may not bite but it nips playfully, and his comic drawl is impeccably timed. The Pause of Mr. Claus begins...
...bewildered tourists and foreign officials. Even Mexican motorists have shifted attitudes. A jaywalker used to be maimed almost inevitably; now he can cross the street and get only a muttered curse from drivers. Contrasts are the essence of the Mexican scene. The highest skyscraper, the 43-story Torre Latino Americana, rises a scant six blocks from the vast Zócalo public square, fringed by the cathedral, begun in 1573, and the 17th century Palacio Nacional...
...answers to such questions about historic personages, along with other more or less fascinating oddments of Americana, now await tourists and trivia enthusiasts at Washington's new National Portrait Gallery. For its opening exhibit, called "This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits," the gallery assembled 173 likenesses of figures from American history (see color pages). Though the gallery already owns some 500 pictures, it reached outside its own store and borrowed about three-quarters of the portraits now on show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags...