Word: peasant
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...spoke about peasants with off-beat seriousness and the same mannerisms he used to talk about cigar shops on Madison Avenue. And of course, the peasants were not just impoverished, but the object of American geo-political movements. "The essence of my being to a peasant in Thailand is being an American--not by choice, but by paying taxes...
...standard interpretation of The Cherry Orchard is, in the phrase of Critic Robert Brustein, as a "melodramatic conflict between a despoiler and $ his victims." The purported despoiler is Lopakhin, an upstart peasant turned real estate developer who plans to raze the family's mansion and orchard to create a cottage camp for vacationers. In place of this tragic vision of culture under attack, some Soviet productions have hailed Lopakhin as a visionary forerunner of the people's state. Either way, the play becomes didactic, and its undeniably comic moments work at the expense of its humanity...
...dancing was effervescent, but the stars of the show were the sassy, spectacular costumes served up from the sketch pad of the host. Gaite was a stand-up, cheering hit. After the lights went up, Lacroix joined the crowds and danced the farandole, the heels-up peasant dance of Provence. He hoofed it until...
Every year, Armstrong--a Harvard forward and now the team's captain--plays in front of the home crowd. The home crowd treats Armstrong like a king. A king in the midst of a peasant revolt...
...officials are far from satisfied with Mexico's subsequent handling of the case. The bodies of the agent and his pilot were discovered by a peasant near the village of La Angostura in the neighboring state of Michoacan late on March 5. Both were so decomposed that DEA agents who saw the bodies the next day were unable to recognize them; not until March 8 did a pathologist confirm their identities. Without benefit of forensic assistance, however, the Mexican Attorney General's office announced the discovery of the missing men's bodies, identifying them by name, early on March...