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FUENTE OVEJUNA by Lope de Vega...
...Spain's greatest tragedy, as oppressed villagers hack to shreds their tyrannical overlord, trashing his palace and slaughtering his bullyboy guards, the playgoer's mind leaps to Nicolae Ceausescu's Bucharest, to Samuel Doe's Monrovia and to far too many other gruesome places arraigned in current headlines. Although Lope de Vega's play was written around 1612 and was based on an actual occurrence in 1476, the abuses of power it depicts remain painfully close to our times...
...surrendered to Kasparov two years earlier. But in the tense match game, with an astonishing virtuosity, Kasparov forced Karpov to resign. That left the final count tied at 12 and meant he retained his championship. The feat had the capacity crowd of 700 in the ornate Teatro Lope de Vega offering a 20-minute standing ovation. One expert called it the "most dramatic finish ever seen in world- championship chess...
There is a warrior lope that goes along with the song, although Moses does not give it the full treatment now. Chin and chest jut forward at the assertion of organ tone: Hunnnnnnh! Hunnnnnnnnh! The Masai know how to look dangerous, and sound dangerous. And the history of East African warfare confirms that they are dangerous. But the visitor wonders why the hands of the men are so oddly soft...
...story was not supposed to happen to privileged children who command the city with their lusty self-assurance; who shop at Benetton's and Bergdorf's, have plenty of style, plenty of clothes; who do not leave home without American Express. But they do leave home. Breezy, noisy, they lope about the fashionable streets like flocks of orphans in Brazil or in Beirut, like the earth's poorest children -- hanging out, swooping into saloons where no one looks twice at the doctored ID cards; the kids' money is good. Don't blame the saloonkeepers, say the sociologists. Blame the moral...