Word: peron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk show after talk show and yaps, yaps, yaps, about how she has been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman show resembles noting so much as Eva Peron's triumphant world tour reprised for the postmodern landscape of tabloid...
...movie. The movie stops and the lights come up to the chagrin of the audience. We hear a voice over the intercom speaking in Spanish, which is soon drowned out by the monotonic English translation of the day's latest news: "To inform the people of Argentina that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 20:25 hours today...
...true-life rags-to-riches story of Argentinian heroine Evita Peron is well-known. Evita traces this shooting star from the slums of Buenos Aires to the president's mansion. Evita grew up an ambitious girl in Argentinian slums, carefully manipulating her "targets," usually men, to ensure her ascent on the ladder of success. Her climb ends when she finally reaches the "top" and marries Juan Peron, the soon-to-be-dictator of Argentina...
...remove a chair and proceed to play musical chair. The point of the game: The man left standing is forced to leave the room, and thus symbolically relinquishes power over Argentina. The remaining men sit and the tempo of the song increases slightly. This charade continues until Juan Peron is the only one left and becomes the leader...
Once when Juan Peron was returning (he was always returning), the Peronistas stopped cheering after he had passed by and commenced shooting one another, having nothing in common other than their allegiance to Peron. One suspects the Perot-nistas (the coinage is by novelist Peter Tauber) will have the same problem, though one trusts not as dramatically...