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...17th, 18th or 19th centuries." Basho, the "great 17th century poet who brought the haiku verse form to perfection," journeys along the narrow road to the deep North in search of enlightenment. After thirty years he finds it and returns home, only to find the South ruled by the outlaw Shogo, who has murdered the old emperor and named himself head of the city...
During the course of the play we learn that the difference between the outlaw and the British imperialists is one of means rather than end--what the one accomplishes through atrocity and terror the other gains through morality and guilt. As Georgina explains to Basho...
Since his death by overdose in 1966, the myth of Lenny Bruce as an outlaw saint who gave his life to the cause of free speech has become an article of faith among the culturally disaffected of many moral, political and even sexual persuasions. According to their hagiography, Bruce was hounded into drugs, poverty, madness and finally suicide by a repressively puritanical Establishment. It is upon this belief that a Broadway show, several books and now Bob Fosse's movie have fed-or tried to feed...
Some of the measures were hardly of earth-shattering importance. In Dade County, Fla., a ban on throwaway bottles and cans, favored by environmentalists, was rejected by the voters, while in nearby Cocoa Beach topless bathing was outlawed. South Carolinians regularized the hours of the state's liquor stores, Arkansans spurned an attempt by bankers and businessmen to give the state legislature control over interest rates, and, in the year's biggest victory for Fundamentalism, the citizens of Rush Springs, Okla. (pop. 1,381), decided to outlaw dancing in public. Other proposals and the voters' decisions were...
...Rooster Cogburn. Kate's acceptance of the hardships of making a brawling western seemed to reinvigorate Duke. Playing the same hard-drinking, one-eyed marshal who won him an Academy Award in True Grit, Wayne predictably chases an outlaw gang through the steep trails and canyons of the high desert. Joining in the good old pursuit is Kate as Spinster Eula Goodnight, out to avenge her murdered clergyman father. If the plot does not sound stirringly original, it at least gave the two aging stars a good workout...