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...idea that European culture is oppressive in and of itself is a fallacy that can survive only among the fanatical and the ignorant. The moral and intellectual conviction that inspired Toussaint-Louverture to focus the rage of the Haitian slaves and lead them to freedom in 1791 came from his reading of Rousseau and Mirabeau. When thousands of voteless, propertyless workers the length and breadth of England met in their reading groups in the 1820s to discuss republican ideas and discover the significance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, they were seeking to unite themselves by taking back the meanings...
...ALLEN TOUSSAINT COLLECTION (Reprise). The king of New Orleans R. and B. -- one of the great all-time musical figures, in fact, in a town where legends come around as regularly as lunchtime. This is a package of 16 solid sides, including From a Whisper to a Scream and What Do You Want the Girl to Do?, culled from his middle-period, major-label work. The very definition of funk; if you don't know Toussaint, your ears have never been baptized...
...radical roots. "France is still a country of class struggle," wrote historian Claude Mazauric in the Communist Party newspaper L'Humanite. "The message of 1789 . . . is to build a society unconstrained by multinational capitalism." SOS-Racisme, a civil rights group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered...
...Jigaboos" who are proud of their Blackness-they take pride in their heritage and the women let their hair grow naturally. Most of this conflict is acted out in a series of catfights between the Gamma Phi women, the Gamma Rays, led by the blond-haired, green-eyed Jane Toussaint (Tisha Campbell) and the Jigaboo women, led by Dap's girfriend Rachel Meadows (Kyme...
...transplanting does no violence to Shakespeare's intentions, although some of the erratically varying performances do. Among the high spots: Lumbly's liltingly Caribbean and muscular Oberon and Lorraine Toussaint's Titania, his equal in dignity and a nonpareil in languorous erotic indulgence. Bottom (Abraham) and his pals, the "rude mechanicals," are for once believable working men, unpatronizingly evoked if, alas, therefore a little less funny than usual. This Midsummer will not stand in memory with Peter Brook's 1971 landmark staging or Liviu Ciulei's 1985 war of the sexes. But it is a vibrant start to a welcome...