Word: calypso
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...this production. Warner lets his imagination go wild. He uses dozens of bizarre, totally unexpected props to complement his players' fine interpretation of the lines--from the very first scene, with leaping figures dancing to calypso music to the last, in which the characters wear BVD's and very short t-shirts. Immediately upon entering the theater, in fact, the audience is aware that this is no straight, classical production of Shakespeare's text. For within the program, a page-long synopsis of the plot tells us what will transpire on the stage. The synopsis is useful because the plot...
...chains have been removed from our hands, the stitches from our lips," said Wilkie Edwards, a bus driver in the fishing town of Grenville on Grenada's east coast. The zesty beat of steel-band calypso music from radios and portable tape decks followed the U.S. military patrols as smiling Grenadians surged about the Americans. They offered the soldiers fruit and vegetables and serenaded them with guitars. Women rushed to embrace the young paratroopers. "I feel so settled; I feel so free," declared Linda Charles, a cashier in a reopened gas station in St. George's. With...
...most democratically governed in the world. The major exceptions: Cuba, Grenada and Haiti. Most of the other governments are aware of, if not always responsive to, a barrage of scrutiny from independent newspapers and opposition parties that extend across a spectrum ranging from conservative monetarism to Maoism with a calypso beat. Political apathy is rarely a problem. On minuscule Dominica (pop. 80,000), for example, virtually everyone seems to tune in to daily radio broadcasts of debates in the 30-member House of Assembly. As a U.S. State Department expert puts it, "We can take solace in the fact that...
...music was different. It sounded like a combination of calypso and rumbas and Latin mixed with rock and funk and rhythm and blues. He didn't talk like anybody else I had ever heard. You'd say to him, 'What do you call what you're doin'?' and he'd say, 'Double-note crossovers and over-and-unders.' He called the bass drum 'the foot propeddler.' He'd show up at work some nights during the '50s wearing a tux and tails with a turtleneck shirt...
...American policy-his Caribbean Basin Initiative of increased American aid, trade and investment-that has been successful in winning friends. On his first stop in Jamaica, Reagan was greeted by crowds of friendly schoolchildren waving American flags, and he mingled happily with eight-and nine-year-old calypso dancers at an airport welcome. Edward Seaga, the pro-business Prime Minister whose election in October 1980 ousted a leftist government, proudly ticked off signs of Jamaica's economic revival: positive economic growth after eight years of slump; the first foreign-exchange surplus since 1974; lower inflation; slightly less unemployment...