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That leaves Cojak, Inca Roca, Amano, and Bidson for those who like to think big, as in big payoff. More unusual things have happened...
During the seven years of the leftist military regime, Peru has been seeking a "humanistic and Christian socialism," but it is not inhospitable to foreign investment. Under Plan Inca, the old semifeudal landholding system has been broken up, and a cloudy kind of mixed ownership, blended from 19th century European syndicalism, the modern Yugoslav cooperatives and perhaps some Andean mysticism, has been introduced. "We do not believe," adds General Morales, "that we are the only owners of truth...
...their heads equine masks and on their feet wear 6-in.-high hoofs that thud with the menace of a jungle drum. Shaffer has been fascinated by mask drama ever since he wrote The Royal Hunt of the Sun, about the conquistador Pizarro in Peru. At his suggestion, Inca funeral masks were worn by the Indians in the last act. "Nobody could think how they should look during Pizarro's speech over the corpse of Atahuallpa," explained Shaffer. "I thought of the masks...
...ceremony in the title is likely to involve some kind of sexual initiation cum tribal rite. Nor man Walker's Ceremonials - based on a surprisingly tame and even melodious score by Dissonant Composer Alberto Ginastera-is true to type. It appears to be set in Brazil, or perhaps Inca-era Peru. The curtain rises to disclose a corps of dancers entwined in suggestively statuesque poses. Later, most of the couples writhe languidly on the floor in what might generously be regarded as orgasmic abandon. According to one associate of the company, Ceremonials is jokingly referred to backstage...
...drawings are at least 1,000 years old, the work of a sophisticated pre-Inca people who survived with the help of elaborate irrigation systems. To create their desert art, these early Peruvians removed strips of the topmost layer of stone, piece by piece, exposing the lighter-colored dirt underneath. They apparently made their precise markings without modern tools or surveying gear or even a high platform from which to view their progress...