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...GREY LADY CANTATA. Huge papier-mâché puppets do a silent, hierophantic dance of death, as if Picasso's Guernica were unfolding in slow motion...
Imagine the ancient stone heads on Easter Island having bodies. Suppose them transformed into papier-mâché puppets eight to ten feet tall. Picture these puppets moving as if they were in some prehistoric slow-motion silent film. This is hierophantic theater, as old as time, as young as the infancy of man. To see The Grey Lady Cantata as performed by the Bread and Puppet Theater is rather like waiting in the mystic whispering groves of Delphi to hear the oracle speak. Despite the primordial trappings, this virtual dumb show is as contemporary as tomorrow...
...Burgos trial of Basque nationalists, Juan Carlos. 33, was hurriedly summoned to appear at Franco's side, but he always withdrew quickly into the shadows. In fact, his reactions were so carefully controlled that in some quarters even in Spain he came to be known as "the papier-mâché prince...
...ritual was staged again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
Recently, anti-Brazilian protesters in Paris displayed a papier-mâché Christ figure with a tube down its throat and wires attached to parts of its body...