Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season's first production by Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company, is a free-form, episodic jour ney through black people's time. It ranges across 20th century America, criss crossing decades. MacDaddy (David Downing) begins as a sort of hustler-prince, a Prohibition vintner on the trail of his vanished friend Wine, who represents a lost magic, the secret of the race. A funky and inventive Candide, MacDaddy travels through peckerwood racism, black venality, Tomism and the death's-head enemy, heroin...
...find the analogy far-fetched, look at any recent history of American Indians. Picture yourself as an Indian watching a Wayne film. What will the next portray? The Trail of Tears? The distribution of smallpox-infected blankets? The massacre at My Lai? Sand Creek? Wounded Knee...
...gathering momentum for a charge down the mountain. But then something seems to anger it and it will balks or pouts and leaps over the lift tower, quivering and shaking violently in paroxysms. As if two wills were fighting for it--one impelling it down the mountain trail, to swirl light-fingered down the moguls, and the other pulling back in horror from the touch of the slick ice or hard packed snow or rocks beneath the powdery surface fluff...
Foreign observers often attribute to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency more power and influence than Ian Fleming's infamous SMERSH. But a story front-paged in the Times of London -that a beefed-up force of CIA agents was on the trail of subversives in the British labor movement-seemed almost a Mission: Preposterous. The chief source was an American named Miles Copeland, who says that he advises overseas U.S. firms on security problems. Copeland told the Times that there was "no doubt at all" that CIA agents were operating inside Britain's trade unions. CIA officials...
Despite such denials, the plumbers concluded that Radford and perhaps also Welander were clandestinely delivering national security information to the Joint Chiefs. But when the investigators followed the trail to the Pentagon and proposed giving lie detector tests to military personnel, Defense Secretary Laird threw them out. Laird also ordered J. Fred Buzhardt, then the Pentagon's general counsel, to find out what was going on. Buzhardt reported back that Radford and Welander had indeed provided high-ranking officers with copies of purloined classified information...