Word: giantess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters -- and spectators -- into a world where every action has its moral consequences. The royal family proves unheroic and useless in a crisis. Neighborliness among the peasants turns to mistrust in a brilliant song of mutual finger pointing, Your Fault. Several characters die brutally in the grasp of the giantess or at the hands of panicky fellow citizens. Yet what comes out of this chaos is not the jollity of happy endings but a deeper reassurance, born of tolerance and community and shared sacrifice, articulated in the haunting ballad No One Is Alone -- a song as tuneful and touching...