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Trinidadians traditionally express their political feelings in satirical calypso songs. Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson won a landslide four years ago to the tune of Captain, the Ship Is Sinking, a telling commentary on the island nation's economic decline. But the conservative Robinson almost lost the helm himself last week, when a group of fanatic black Muslims took him and 54 others hostage in an attempt to bring down the government...
...name on Sunday last week. Well after 3 a.m., strobe lights were pulsing through the cigarette haze to bounce off young women twisting in slinky miniskirts and high heels. Youthful men in leather pants and bright shirts picked up the beat of salsa, reggae and Honduran calypso...
Last month, during a rally a few days before the Illinois primary, the five- term Democratic lawmaker outdid himself. Clumsily parodying a calypso song about a suspicious husband who wonders why his wife's purse is filled with money, he accused his black opponent, Mel Reynolds, of receiving more than $26,000 in contributions from pro-Israel political-action committees or from individual Jewish donors who were members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "He who pays the piper calls the tune," said Savage. "Where did he get all that money?" Attended by security men from the organization...
Around these mismatched romancers, writer-directors John Musker and Ron Clements have assembled enough entertaining creatures to stock a theme park. Sebastian the crab (voiced by Samuel E. Wright) is a Caribbean Jiminy Cricket, fussing avuncularly over Ariel but bound to break into calypso croon. Louis the French chef (Rene Auberjonois) brings sadistic elan to his dicing, flaying and serving of les poissons. Ursula (Pat Carroll) the sea witch is a fat, shimmying squid with malefic revenge in mind -- the sort of Disney horror queen who has given kids nightmares for a half-century. All these characters are given witty...
BEETLEJUICE The feel-weird movie of '88. Director Tim Burton's supernatural jape features comic-book ingenuity, a swell turn by Michael Keaton as a punk demon, and a delirious calypso sound track. Day-O will never sound the same...