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Gnarled, green olive trees cling to the arid slopes while vineyards thrive in the valleys watered by the Jordan River. Donkeys and bony oxen pull ploughs to cultivate laboriously terraced hillsides where farmers for generations have carefully cleared away rocks from the sere soil. Yet television antennas sprout incongruously from the roofs of houses in Arab villages, while women in colorfully embroidered dresses still gather to wash and gossip at the central well. In Jewish settlements that dot the sun-drenched landscape, youths in jeans and yarmulkes dance the hora after school is let out. Their parents leave guns...
...honor of Mahlangu's 13-year-old daughter, who was welcomed into adulthood by delegations of Ndebele from nearby farms and villages. The Mahlangus' house of thick adobe, which has running water but no electricity, had been exuberantly painted in bold white-and-yellow designs. Two oxen and four goats from Mahlangu's herd had been slaughtered (some of the meat was brought up to the Van Tonders' house as a gift; in return the Van Tonders brought meat of their own to the feast). The women sat in one group, the men surrounding them...
...more lyrical than majestic, the group soundedvery fine. The soft chimes of the triangle in "Tuileries" played nicely against the winds, harp, horns and strings, and the tuba burst forth with round tones most of the time in the sad "Bydlo" describing a cart driver trudging along with his oxen. "Ballet of the Hatching Chicks" fared better than "Limoges" and "Catacombae," in which the brass were not as sharp as required...
...gives him the chance to become a "superstar," instead of just another gifted black athlete. Trouble is, the script calls for him to pronounce Charlemagne as "Charlie Magnet." Hammer must act on nationwide TV as if he cannot read. Before the dilemma is resolved, Wolfe gores a number of oxen: the power of advertising, the skin-deep status of black-white understanding, the venality of big-time professional sports. Easy targets, perhaps, but no one has better aim than Wolfe...
Biermann's songs, though well known abroad, have been banned in East Germany since 1965. (One typical lyric ridiculing Communist bureaucrats, "Fat oxen belong in the pot/ Not in official positions.") Thus it came as a surprise when the East German authorities gave Biermann permission to go on a two-week concert tour of West Germany. Once Biermann left, the trap was sprung: his citizenship was canceled. Biermann was disconsolate, and has since pleaded to return...