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WIZARD OF THE UPPER AMAZON by Manuel Córdova-Rios and F. Bruce Lamb. 203 pages. Atheneum...
...helpful character, May Wish, seems to take pity on the bewildered listeners and offers an explanation of the play's symbolism. The cigar (whose properties preoccupy Iambiguous the Tam) is, she says, the moral equivalent of the magic kazoo (which equally intrigues lamb) and the aesthetic substitute for the nose of the noiseless Shaded Veiled Lady (who, of course, also fascinates our hero). Very illuminating. But May Wish's commentary does make one point clear: the play builds on obscurity as a spoof of dramatic convention. Iamiguous lives up to his name, and his lady could not be more enigmatic...
Sitting cross-legged in an Arab tent, the guest of honor munched on a hunk of roast lamb as a local entertainer offered animal imitations. "Monsieur le Président, I'm a cock," the man announced, crowing convincingly. "Monsieur le Président, now I'm a dog," he then barked. As the guest sipped Coca-Cola and Evian water, a group of Moorish women serenaded him in Arabic: "De Gaulle entrusted his testament to Georges Pompidou. Welcome." Thus did the 200 guests at a meshwi, an Arab-style barbecue, greet France's President...
...Which is the lamb? and which the lion...
After the interview, Pattakos treated us to an enormous platter of roast lamb. At dawn the next day he flew off. We were confident that Pattakos' word on our filming would be taken as law, but we were wrong. The local military authorities acted on the orders which they had received from Athens. We had already given them 200 feet of film and twelve rolls of color slides, assuring them that was all we had taken. We hid the rest of the film in the woods. Whenever they asked for more film, we simply gave them a roll...