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...Maya Angelou cannot use the same excuse. She has not been forced, by the threat of Hollywood unemployment, to reduce her past to sentimental and glib reminiscences. For she too has become observer of her own past in bringing her audience closer to famous Black men and women in American social history. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Angelou's first major work, told a complicated, autobiographical tale of the author's childhood and expressed the voice of a timid and surprised child in mature prose. Her stepfather introduced her to sex by raping her, her mother abandoned...
...that contagious Hollywood sentimentality have changed the power and the subtle prose. The closer in age Maya Angelou-the-writer comes to Maya Angelou-the-heroince, the more difficult it is for her to maintain an insightful distance and the more her emotions obscure her vision of the past. The Heart of a Woman proves that Angelou has not had time to situate her remembered self into a story which transcends mere social history. She is still too carried away by the names she became involved with, and like the aritificial reminiscences of Bill Bojangles' narrative, she writes...
Teach-in on Quatemala--Noam Chomsky, Jullo Quan et al., speakers; Maremba music by Grupo Maya K'anll; slide show; Arlington St. Church, Arlington and Boylston Sts., Boston...
...Maya Laemmel Los Angeles
Such problematical openings are often fatal on Broadway, but Makarova and Company is hardly typical fare. For one thing, this program was only the first of four. Still to come are the world premiere of Barry Moreland's Ondine and the first performance outside the Soviet Union of Maya Murdma's Studies. Even balletomanes who were troubled by the uneven debut will probably be lured back by the curiosities ahead...