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...flute-nosed Doo Doo commemorates its creator, Street Puppeteer Igor Fokin. Fokin moved to Harvard Square from Russia in 1993 and began performing a 15-minute marionette act that included Doo Doo, his favorite puppet. Fokin carved all the dozen or so puppets in his show, drawing on Russian folk stories to create new characters. Doo Doo was an original character; its name comes from Fokin’s pronounciation of “Toot Toot” in a deep, Russian-accented voice...
Friday night’s program also included clips of the show, which ranged in topic from Rev. James McCloskey’s commentary on waning spirituality, Andre Dubus’s near-death experience and Richard Thompson’s rendition of a folk ballad to Monica S. Lewinsky...
...cold war to the Gulf War to Y2K (how quaint it seems now, that odd abbreviation), a certain vocal minority hereabouts has been hoarding ammunition, boiling water and stockpiling gold coins in hopes of riding out some vast calamity that will devastate the unprepared while leaving savvy country folk untouched. That was the vision, at least, until last month, when the attacks on New York City and Washington proved to all but the most stubborn of mountain dwellers that that's not the way it's going...
...local terms. There are only about 7,000 people in Livingston, and if what had happened back East had happened here, almost everyone in the town would be dead. Every house, every office, every vehicle, the schools, the stores, the hospital--all empty. The instinctive rural resentment toward city folk, whose perceived wealth and influence can make country folk feel like sharecroppers or peasants, was swallowed up by that awful calculation. The ghost town is a familiar Western image--just drive up into the hills; they're everywhere--and suddenly it was possible to picture another one: ours...
...people across the political spectrum who think the Justice Department already has all the power it needs. The things that Ashcroft wants--expanded power to tap phones, sift through e-mail and detain or deport foreigners--don't just offend the A.C.L.U. Cynicism about government power is now the folk culture of the American right. In Congress, one of the first members to question Ashcroft's plans was Georgia's state-of-the-art conservative Representative Bob Barr. "We cannot and must not," he said, "allow our constitutional freedoms to become victims of these violent attacks...