Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leave their lethal city stay on? When asked if he will flee, Moyse responds, "To where?" Many residents have learned to tune out the chaos, though that gift carries its peril. Caught in the middle of a blazing gun battle near the Beirut airport, an old farmer continued to till his tiny plot. Afterward, when asked why he did not seek cover, he replied, "If I waited for the fighting to stop, I would never get the soil ready for planting. The seasons don't stop for wars." In its own weary, puzzling, stubborn way, neither does Beirut...
When the only patron with politically lib eral sympathies begins to orate, the bar tender-proprietor warns: "You start talkin' about niggers and America in here tonight, I swear you won't get another drink till winter. You understand?" Such moments surpass the contrivances of plot; surprise fades in the glare of recognition...
Cesaire also embraced the struggle of Black Americans in "On the State of the Union," a highly sardonic poem on the murder of Emmet Till, a Black boy who allegedly eyed a white woman. The white Americans are described as bloodless, their hearts made of "tough antiseptic meat...
Other sources of old clothing at possibly less-than-vintage prices are the Harvard Square Bazaar. Saturdays at the corner of Church St. and Mass. Ave. and Dollar-a-Pound Clothing, open Saturdays till 1 p.m. "Antique" clothing from Japan is available at Turkoman (12 Arrow...
...second act that things really begin to move--a welcome change from previous shows whose second acts just filled the time till the kickline. And the obligatory pun-fest midway through the act makes everything all right. The writers also deserve kudos for being the first in many years to actually offer a plot rationalization for the kickline itself, even if that rationalization, is too silly to appear in print...