Word: beret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seale wore a beret and a scowl when he and Huey Newton formed the Black Panthers in Oakland in 1966. His disruptions aroused combative Judge Julius Hoffman to have him shackled to a chair and gagged during the Chicago Seven trial. Today he lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, attends Temple University and directs a youth training program. "I want to contribute to social change by being the last word behind a nonprofit organization," says Seale, 48. Where would the money come from? Believe it or not, from a cookbook, Barbecuing with Bobby, and possibly a barbecue video...
...costuming sparse. Ski hats and overcoats are enough to dress all six as victims of Reagan-era policies. "We wear our characters lightly and dress them lightly," says Co-Founder Bernard Sahlins. "Put on a pair of glasses and you've got a businessman." Put on a beret, as Troupe Member Richard Kind does later, and you have Jean-Paul Sartre, unpleasantly surprised to discover that there is an afterlife and that God, played by Mike Hagerty, is a sort of hearty camp counselor. Sartre: It's not what I expected. God: What did you expect...
...haven for procrastinators with fertile minds and rest-less bodies, it has a hazy, mystical quality that is as clusive and puzzling as the ellipses in "Welcome to...Tommy's." The most Dorfman figure Tommy's is second-hand bookseller Mel Dorfman. Sporting a white beard and a black beret, he can be seen reading and drinking coffee in the last booth at any hour of the day or night. Tommy's is his office, and he has commuted there for the past 20 years. Romana Vysatova says that her freshman year she was convinced that Dorfman was a police...
...Havana to help alleviate tensions between the U.S. and the Castro regime, Blackford begins a series of negotiations with Che. The Commandante is a sardonic figure who sometimes talks like William F. Buckley in fatigues and beret: "Disappointing . . . is a distinctively English, meiotic expression." Wherever Oakes settles in, a pair of alluring hazel eyes cannot be far away. This time they are blinked by Catalina Urrutia, a Cuban translator, moralist and flirt. After the requisite tango, the CIA man and the beautiful bilinguist end up in the percales. Heavy breathing leads to weighty revelations, and the smitten Catalina shows Blackford...
...case of Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor whose wife and two daughters were brutally murdered in their home at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 1970, has led a succession of investigators on a shocking voyage of discovery. MacDonald claimed (and still does) that a band of drug-crazed hippies committed the carnage. But Army investigators found holes in his story and soon began to suspect MacDonald. When charges against MacDonald were dropped because of insufficient evidence, his father-in-law led a crusade to find the murderers. After examining the evidence, he, too, became convinced that...