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...Moro di Venezia, defied sailing experts and reached the finals in the America's Cup. Il Moro's success cast Gardini as the personification of Italian style, an image especially sweet for a man whose childhood on a farm in Ravenna earned him the lifelong nickname "il contadino," the peasant...
...left Petit-Trou in the first place four months after the coup that deposed Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, when soldiers began arriving in trucks to round up suspected supporters of the exiled President. They hunted in particular for a group of 65 young men who were organizing a peasant co-op. Desperate not to lose the best of its youth, the community elected to pour its savings, its hopes and its most promising citizens into a single boat to America. Selling everything but their beds, the town cobbled together $1,650 and persuaded its wealthiest resident, who runs...
...cult of bravery and militarism exerts a grip so strong that military leaders might not be able to overcome it even if they wanted to. The young soldiers strut down the streets; they are treated as heroes. They are not willing to return to their old peasant lives. This is a victorious army that has not tasted decisive defeat...
...stage. After reading a few too many legends of gallant knights and fair maidens, the eccentric old Don Quixote wanders here with his sidekick Sancho Panza. As he arrives on the scene clad in makeshift armor, he discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued by Lorenzo, Gamache and everyone else in the massive cast, Kitri...
...have risen to minor fame through the admiration of other artists -- in his case, again, via Nutt and his friends in the Hairy Who group in Chicago in the '60s. Others are better known in Europe than in the U.S. These include Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), the near illiterate peasant schizophrenic whose stupendously complex drawings of imaginary terrains, buildings and cities, infinite in their ramifications of detail and yet exquisite in their order, entitle him to be seen as perhaps the greatest psychotic artist whose work has come down to us. And some are known only to specialists. Among these...