Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production uses a set depicting a deserted subway tunnel, complete with wrecked subway cars, water puddles, mud, falling dust, and general refuse. Director JoAnna Akalaitis cast Black actors in the roles and the ART filled in moments of intended silence with incidental music by Phillip Glass...
...impoverished northern backwater of Amethi, where Prime Minister Gandhi was pitted against Maneka Gandhi, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay, sleepy villages came alive with Rajiv buttons, Rajiv banners, Rajiv posters and Rajiv hats. YOU LOOK AFTER THE COUNTRY, RAJIV, advised a sign on a mud- brick wall. WE'LL LOOK AFTER AMETHI...
...illustrated the same truth. What you need of such a weird spectacle is one good view of it, and this I had ... The uneasy moonscape stretched away on every hand, and, below me, clinging to the roots of the fortified pinnacle of rock I stood upon, were the ruinous mud huts of the old village, their terraces heaped with melons yellow and green. Fantastical that landscape is, the tufa towers riddled with painted churches, like the sandcastles of giants' children, and I was amazed by it; but amazement is pretty soon exhausted...
...takes a back seat to the commercials shown between posessions. Local radio stations, when not airing campaign ads, spin Helms-Hunt musical parodies. Ray Parker Jr.'s hit "Ghostbusters" has been dismembered so that the chorus repeatedly chimes "Who ya gonna call? Mudslingers! They ain't afraid of no mud. They're just out for some blood...
...counterattack by focusing first on Helms' record as a devout opponent of social security and abortion and as a lackluster Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and second on Helms' "retrogressive" mindset. But they were clearly baffled when Helms began to close the gap in the polls-he slung mud, as expected, but he also traveled the high moral road of emotive symbolism...