Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pale skins could not protect them from the blazing heat and light ("The white man," Miss Lissie notes, "worships gold because it is the sun he has lost"). Thus was conceived whites' envy of blacks and a determination to crush them, a process that began, at least symbolically, in Greek mythology when Perseus beheaded Medusa, who was really the Great Mother, the Black African Goddess...
...currently involved in a case that it hopes will change attitudes. Last week the Greek Supreme Court heard a U.S. application for the extradition of Mohammed Rashid, a suspected Palestinian guerrilla. Rashid has been charged with planting a bomb on a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu in 1982 that killed one passenger and wounded 15. American officials are hoping that the Rashid case can be a first. Says one: "We hope that terrorists will start running out of places...
Jean Anouilh's World War II version of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone, takes the stage this weekend at the Adams House Kronauer Space this weekend and next. While the plot is the same as Sophocles' ancient play, Anouillh's version involves everything from Nazis to occupied France in a play involving a cast of seven...
...unequal lengths and correspondingly non-correspondent meters. The instrumental bridge is a string quartet; the coda is also counched in lush strings, with Askew contributing a haunting, wordless "Madame Butterfly" type aria. This segues into an instrumental, "Acropolis Now," which begins promisingly as a hybrid between '80s rock and Greek folk guitar, but it begins to maunder soon after and degenerates into a fairly close approximation of a jam session by a forgotten, early '70s band. The side closes with the title track, which reverses the problems of the opening cut; a suitably anthemic chorus is surrounded by a song...
Jean Anouillh's World War II version of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone takes the stage this weekend at the Adams House Kronauer Space this weekend and next. While the plot is the same as Sophocles' ancient play, Anouillh's version involves everything from Nazis to occupied France in a play involving a cast of seven...