Word: kingstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONFICTION: A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet, Richard Perceval Graves ∙ China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Rockers' predecessor, The Harder They Come, has a tiny mythic quality. It beats one song into a sandy grave but maintains a quick, urchin-like pace that never gets lost in the narrow, winding streets of Kingston. Rockers, simpler and less violent, doesn't show as much of the city, sticking primarily to the Rasta neighborhoods where life is slower...
Horse specializes in conning his friends, trading his superb drumming talent for money and favors. Unhappy with life as a studio musician, he buys a motorcycle in order to sell records to shops in Kingston. When Mafia hoods steal his bike, then beat him, Horse decides it's time to exact revenge from rich Mr. Big, who happens to have a beautiful daughter named Sunshine. It's all very silly, of course, and it concludes with the same moral as any Robin Hood fable...
Bafaloukos also has a terrific sense of humor that pops up most often when his camera captures the white tourists to Kingston. One idiotically chic couple (he wears an Andy Warhol Interview T-shirt) lock the keys in their car and have to hire a Rasta locksmith. But the clincher comes earlier, at a club restaurant where Horsemouth's band plays fast-paced reggae. A bewildered blond tourist turns to his young bride and exclaims, "This isn't calypso...