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...Real Paper or Phoenix; freaks make music on the sidewalks: and all of them hand out at one time or another in the heart of the Square, the plaza in front of Holyoke Center. The way they dress hasn't changed much--it's still tattered jeans. But the outfit is no longer so easily readable as a political statement; it is worn rather as a hanging on to a faded out past, as if the old collectivist politics had somehow personalized...
Nader's cohorts are also trying to put some new laws on the books. The Corporate Accountability Research Group is drafting legislation to require federal chartering of corporations, a move that Nader thinks would make companies legally accountable to consumers. Nader also has in the works a new outfit called Congress Watch, which he says would be "the largest public interest lobby in the U.S." Starting with a staff of three that will eventually grow to ten, Watch will not only push for legislation on such matters as consumer protection and tax reform but also monitor the performance...
...actor of quick cunning, and he manages to get the movie back on course whenever it tends to become a little sentimental about the lot of the misunderstood loner. He has the uncanny ability to transform himself instantly from a ravaged outcast into a kid in a cowboy outfit on his way to First Communion...
...costumes are so elaborate as to be distracting. Charles Weinstein, as Matti the iron founder, provokes laughter from the audience on his first entrance purely because of his plumed hat and bizarre purple outfit. But we're so busy looking at his clothes that we miss the significance of his lines. The same thing happens later in the play, when Peter Kazaras' strong speech as Pope Urbino is marred by the attention devoted to the progress of his complicated toilette...
...Indians, the last hurrah came on this desolate reservation at a creek known as Wounded Knee. The Pine Ridge reservation was only a year old when the U.S. seventh cavalry, Custer's former outfit, slaughtered 200 Indian men, women, and children, in what came to be known as the last battle of the Indian wars...