Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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YOUNG COMRADE, the central figure of the play, is acted by each of the four leaders in turn, each donning a blue wool cap to indicate the role. Thus Young Comrade could have been male or female, heavy or thin; the role remains an abstraction, undiluted by personality. Seen from a distance, in multiple portrayals, heroes disappear and abstract characters take their place...
...draws them together and recalls the dress of marching Young Pioneers. The four leaders' interchangeability in political and dramatic roles is embodied by their blue work clothes; black masks become their political disguises. Could there be an easier way to put on a role than simply putting on a cap, as the four leaders do to play Young Comrade...
...approaching car sent two barefoot girls scurrying to their mother, who in turn summoned her husband. His face was a study in seams and his hands were encrusted with years of grit. He wore a green plaid coat, bib overalls tucked into high rubber boots and a John Deere cap. He was immediately suspicious, but loosened up when the sheriff told him, with a perfectly straight face, that the visitor was a distant relative from Chicago...
...about this point, any non-Brazilian begins to wonder what in the world is going on. The answer: capoeira (pronounced cap-oh-wcry-rah), a combination of folk dancing and self-defense that has become a national craze. Along the beaches, in parks and at festivals all over Brazil, enthusiasts leap, fade, swing and sing in the country's first truly national folk manifestation. Capoeira pervades nearly every aspect of Brazilian life, from pop songs and poetry to sport and even formal receptions for state visitors. It resembles a super-athletic ballet, its deadly blows precisely calculated to miss...
...their wrath is the property tax. In Chicago, a group called Citizens' Action Program is pressuring the state general assembly to impose a tax freeze in Illinois; it is hoped that the move will become a rallying point for the taxpayers. "The crisis has come," says Robert Creamer, CAP coordinator. "The solution now is to quit tinkering with the system. We've got to use a meat cleaver instead...