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Jamaica's cast of characters is worthy of a Dickens novel, except Dickens' characters never said "ganga" so much. Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach...
Speaking of ganga, the night atmosphere in Negril has quite a different feel. The beach at Negril fills with beach bums, hustlers, and prostitutes who, mixed with the tourists, listen to reggae and puff joints, a scene more than one suburban teenager has imagined while listening to Marley or Jimmy Cliff. The most ubiquitous dealer on the beach goes by the name of Doctor Fabulous. "Da Doctor" is a self-assured smooth talker, a "Rastafarian who smoke da ganga anywhere, anytime." Along with his potentsmelling crop, Fabulous deals out lines like "Da doctor needs his patient...
...time Dylan took the stage and began wailing out his incomprehensible opener, the schoolgirls had finished off their alcohol and moved on to a more appropriate vice--the ganga. As they climbed to new levels of consciousness on the sweet smelling wisps of burning grass, they rose to their feet and began swaying rhythmically to Bob's mellow groove. It was not long, however, before the girls lost their balance and sank back into the comfort of their hard plastic seats...
Snaking down from a Himalayan ice cave to the Bay of Bengal, the 1,560-mile- long river is called Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges), the holiest of all Hindu streams. Every pious Hindu wishes to be cremated on the Ganges' banks and to bequeath his ashes to her waters...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou, Land Without Bread, and Simon of the Desert, Feb. 7, 7:30, Ganga Zumba (about a slave rebellion in Brazil), Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. BAKER LIBRARY, B-SCHOOL, Sam Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue...