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...With the world going to hell in a handbasket what with overpopulation, air pollution, water pollution, the destruction of natural resources, war, racial hatred and famine, some clown had to invent -and invest millions in-ads that smell. As if they don't anyway...
...their rights, and have gone to jail as a result. One of their leaders, Janet McCloud, a fiery Tulalip, contends that restrictions on catching salmon have reduced the Indian to "savages with no more rights than a bear." More softly, she concedes: "I don't like being a clown or a militant, but sometimes you have to break this conspiracy of silence." Another angry woman, Kahn Tineta Horn, effectively uses a trim figure in a tight buckskin dress to gain television attention for protest demonstrations. But sex is not her only weapon; she has been arrested for carrying a knife...
CASTRATED clergymen, ingratiating prostitutes, and lusty rebels: The Blacks has all these in its menagerie of characters. With endearing clumsiness and sententious didacticism, Jean Genet has written a clowncrie (clown show) as subtle as this production at the Loeb Drama Center is deft and forthright. The New African Company, in conjunction with the Theatre Company of Boston, offers on the Loeb mainstage (normally bereft of black performers) a panoply of gifted black actors and actresses, in a visual spectacle of remarkable exuberance...
Another of the defendants that I recognized from pictures was Jerry Rubin. His bushy Afro cut, full beard, and colorful attire made him look much like a clown, sort of setting the stage for the circus to follow. The orange and blue striped T-shirt that he wore almost glowed when juxtaposed with his bright kelly-green pants. Like the other defendants, he beamed continuously, thoroughly enjoying his predicament...
...protagonist. My standard for identifying with movie characters is not high: the character may be as unintelligent or misguided as he likes, but he must have some glimmer of good intentions. La Strada , for example, which was very depressing, reached me because I could well have been the clown on the road...