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Starting with fragmentary accounts of an African slave ancestor and a few African words which had been passed down to him through generations of family storytelling, Haley traced his lineage to a village in Gambia...
During this search, Haley made several trips to Africa and eventually interviewed a village story teller who described the disappearance of Haley's African ancestor. The ancestor had been kidnapped by slave traders in the middle of the 19th century...
...develop the Amazon, so far with disappointing results. In a way, Ludwig's project is the realization of this old Brazilian ambition. Yet Jari has picked up an unjustifiedly distasteful reputation in Brazil. Because of Ludwig's passion for secrecy, abetted by Jari's remote location, untrue stories of slave laborers living in hovels have regularly appeared in the Brazilian press. In fact, while they are occasionally exploited by contractors, the migrant workers who make up about two-thirds of Jari's work force frequently return to the operation for another season in the forest. Some of the criticism...
...Forum has nothing more to offer than good acting, mad cavorting on stage, fine singing, Stephen Sondeim songs and Shevelove-Gelbart one-liners delivered with perfect timing--well; sit back and be entertained by it all. Forget the silly story line; don't look for morals. As the slave Pseudolus sings, "Morals tomorrow, comedy tonight...
...rest of the cast is proficient, but mostly a backdrop for these three. David Levy as Hysterium, the slave-in-chief on whom Pseudolus has leverage because of his collection of pornographic pottery, is suitably hysterical, in all senses of the word. He runs about like a Skinner-box mouse on Thorazine. Taking time out to sing "I'm Calm," he shows he's as cool under fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street...