Word: dictatorship
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...have sensed this strange blend of sweetness and murk, as his drawings for the album’s cover and liner could be viewed alternatively as a morose grown-up’s take on Alice and Wonderland or a child’s fantastic documentation of life under dictatorship. Normally I find album visuals irrelevant at best, annoying and distracting at worst, but somehow these ghoulishly lovely illustrations complement Guero wonderfully, like marginalia to an illuminated manuscript...
...have sensed this strange blend of sweetness and murk, as his drawings for the album’s cover and liner could be viewed alternatively as a morose grown-up’s take on Alice and Wonderland or a child’s fantastic documentation of life under dictatorship. Normally I find album visuals irrelevant at best, annoying and distracting at worst, but somehow these ghoulishly lovely illustrations complement Guero wonderfully, like marginalia to an illuminated manuscript...
...movement, a role that has earned him the title of “the Brazilian Bob Dylan.” Like its American counterpart, the Tropicalist movement was set in the midst of a tumultuous time in Brazilian history—the height of the power of the military dictatorship...
This spirit, however, came at a price. In December 1968, the military dictatorship passed a law which curtailed freedom of speech and artistic liberty. Shortly thereafter, Gil and Caetano Veloso, another Tropicalist founder, were imprisoned under the pretext that the two had disrespected the national hymn and the Brazilian flag. Their heads were shaved, and they were held in custody for several months. In July of 1969, they were exiled to London...
...panel discussion at Lamont Library yesterday, the Iraqi students’ faculty advisor, University of Baghdad professor Hamdan, said he believed the vast majority of Iraqis had opposed Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. But he added that since Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, everyday life in Iraq had been marked by danger, difficulty traveling, and scarcity of goods...