Word: calypsoed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actor, the pitfall in recent years has been to regard Othello as a racially conscious black instead of the Elizabethan he always was and always will be. Thus Olivier was the embodiment of a calypso Othello, with a Caribbean accent and swagger. The highly stylized, slightly exotic Othello of Moses Gunn might have been a Cotton Club dandy. In the current revival at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, James Earl Jones makes of Othello a wounded animal, a Jack Johnson in agonized decline...
...only the ubiquity of pelagic oil particles that appalled Cousteau and his crew aboard the Calypso. "People do not realize that all pollution ends up in the seas. The earth is less polluted. It is washed by the rain which carries everything into the oceans, where life has diminished by 40% in 20 years. Fish disappear. Flora too." He especially decried the ecological effects of "brutal" modern fishing techniques. "The ocean floors are being scraped. Eggs and larvae are disappearing. In the past, the sea renewed itself. It was a continuous cycle. But this cycle is being upset. Shrimps...
...Titanic sails at dawn. Everybody's shouting "Which side are you on?" And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower, while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers. Dylan