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...bungles the easy juxtaposition of monotheism and black magic in a flurry of cliches and char-broiled priests. Risking very little, Robbins lets his movie get bogged down in Middle Ages muck, where it is continually trampled by hordes of frantic peasants and finally burled under the rotting carcass of old fire-breath himself...
...Eliot, the poet's widow, discovered others, which have been incorporated into the production, and notes that suggested a structure and a setting. John Napier, the show's designer, has transformed the New London Theater into a giant playground for cats, cluttered with trash cans, an auto carcass, bicycles and tires...
...later, Ugandan troops invaded the hospital and killed five staff members. The famine in Karamoja has broken down all sense of humanity and cooperation among the local people. Relief workers watched recently as adult men snatched chunks of meat out of the mouths of children gathered around the bony carcass of a freshly slaughtered cow. Says a missionary: "This is a microcosm of everything that can go wrong in Africa: no food, no security, no medicine. And it can only get worse...
Even in two trips a newcomer picks up a good deal of lore. Pigeon-toed prints usually mean a man is running. You can tell which predator killed an animal by the way the carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage. An old man's tracks tend to be more regular than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away...
...Nice buck, about a year and a half old," he comments, straightening up to watch his helpers heave the carcass back into the pickup. "And well nourished too," he adds with a gesture toward the deer's six-pointed rack of antlers. "Antlers don't tell you anything about a deer's age. But they'll tell you how well he eats. A deer doesn't grow a rack like that unless he's getting plenty of food...