Word: camino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marchers?some from as far away as Nebraska?demonstrated in the rain against the bombing. Much of the protest was genial, even languid, but there were incidents of violence. In Palo Alto, Calif., hard by Stanford University, police made 210 arrests after some rock throwing along El Camino Real, a major highway. In Detroit, 15 out of some 250 sit-in demonstrators were arrested at the Federal Building. The drawdown of U.S. forces has made the war a less personal issue to many collegians, and many 18-to 21-year-olds may be saving their spleen for the November presidential...
Others have also profited from the White House invasion. The Alpha Beta Supermarket, part of a chain, on El Camino Real takes in an extra $500 a week when the President is in town. Sometimes the White House orders put the manager, Leon Riley, on the phone to his food broker in Los Angeles, as the time when the chef ordered macadamia nut ice cream (it comes from Hawaii). "They've picked that up here and taken it back East with them," says Riley. And it took Alpha Beta a day and a half to get in Gruyere cheese...
...well-known citizen was Patrolman Bruce Crego, a red-haired giant known as "the Red Rider" for his prodigious feats with the summons pad. Until his retirement three years ago, Patrolman Crego handed out more than 5,000 speeding tickets a year to motorists passing through town on El Camino Real highway, which links Los Angeles with San Diego...
...That is the poignant internal music of Camino Real, the sound of one heart breaking. Unfortunately, the play is too diffuse and episodic to record that sound resonantly. Williams oscillated between writing an ode to the romantic imagination and a bitter philippic against life's raw deal. El Camino Real was once the royal highway from Santa Fe to Chihuahua, Mexico. In the play it becomes a literal dead end, a pothole of a tropical police state where the street cleaners lie in wait to cart away the appointed victims. These include some of the great romantics of history...
...Clouds in a Gale. The play is Williams' most ambitious departure from realism; it also makes enormous imaginative demands on the director. In 1953, when Camino Real was first presented, Williams indicated the scope of those demands in his preface: "My desire was to give audiences my own sense of something wild and unrestricted that ran like water in the mountains, or clouds changing shape in a gale, or the continually dissolving and transforming images of a dream...