Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitor's driver, Davis, was a Luo from Lake Victoria, a hearty man of middle age with smiling open face and the public manner of a gregarious bishop. Davis considered himself a Roman Catholic priest. Into a notebook that he always carried, he had inscribed the text of the Latin Mass, copied from a missal that he had borrowed somewhere in his travels. Davis sometimes donned a long white alb and, all by himself outside the boma, performed services beside his Land Rover, chanting the Latin in a rich bass...
...witch doctor talked about charms and animal sacrifices, Davis' rich, deep Latin poured through the small window of the hut: "Pater noster qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum . . ." The laibon explained the uses of animals in his work. He employed the warthog, for example, to cast a spell to keep the government out of Masai business. Good choice, the visitor thought. The warthog is a strutty little beast, a short-legged peasant with a thin tail that stands straight up like a flagpole when it runs. It backs into its hole and pulls dirt on top of itself...
...vets Jeremy Geidt (as the Machiavellian party animal Dr. Atmos) and Thomas Derrah (metamorphosed by terrific make-up into the knife wielding Latin chucklehead Boupacha) turn in some outstanding acting in the Grand Old Style. This is particularly impressive considering that they are spouting dialogue that sounds like it was written by Nietzsche and Bernard Shaw after a tankard of Johnnie Walker, a few lines of coke, and several stale pizzas were consumed between them...
Government raids on newspaper or television offices are usually associated with Latin American dictators or East European police states. But last week one took place in Britain. Scotland Yard agents, using powers under the 1911 Official Secrets Act, showed up at the Glasgow office of the British Broadcasting Corp. looking for information that had been leaked to the network about a supersecret spy satellite known as Zircon. It took Scotland Yard officers 28 hours and three attempts to come up with a valid warrant, but then the police carted off two vanloads of BBC film and documents...
...sisters struggle against the barrier that divides reality and fiction, and so does the reader of Fuentes' Orchids, which the American Repertory Theater staged in 1982. For Fuentes and the three other writers featured in Drama Contemporary's Latin America, the barrier gives way to a "New Realism." Weakness and strength, male and female--seemingly antithetical forces--merge, furthering exploration and transcendence of artistic and human limitations...