Word: tramp
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...Black, the original altruist and vanguard of the people, who gradually is tranformed into a crazy, tyrannical despot as his power increases. Then there is Flash, a corrupt gangster-like politician currently in power, whose mere presence is a cause for alarm among the people. Finally there is the Tramp, a social dropout who acts as the detached narrator and is probably the character with whom Davies identifies most...
...played the role of Flash, while Mr. Black was perfectly portrayed by a haunting, insidious Davies in a film projected onto the stage screen. The grotesque projection of his image and the resounding echo of his voice gave him the quality of an omni-present big-brother figure. The Tramp, though, was dispensed with entirely, an unfortunate necessity, for while his character is not essential to the story, his part included some of the best songs on the album...
...points out that the th sound is absent in both Gaelic and Brooklynese, in which it becomes a hard / or d (as in da dame wid tin legs). Some classic Brooklyn expressions, he adds, come directly from the Gaelic: whudda card (joker) is a corruption of caird (an itinerant tramp); put da kibosh on it (put an end to it) comes from caip baish, or cap of death, a facecloth that inhabitants of southwest Ireland placed over a corpse...
Baker said he did not want to discuss politics. But he alluded to President Nixon by describing a Charlie Chaplin film scene in which the tramp slowly eats the last peas off his plate, knowing that when he finishes, the restaurant owner will learn that he has no money and will call in his blood-hungry bouncers...
...alter ego--who was born 27 years ago, was introduced to the American public on my first tour here. He has been called the "Little Tramp's Younger Brother." Physically, there is no resemblance. Bip has his adventures and misadventures with everything from butterflies to untameable lions to dance-hall girls, in white-face, wearing a striped pullover and culotte, and a worse-for-wear opera hat topped with a red flower. But basically he and the Little Tramp--like the great Jean-Louis Barrault's Baptiste, and Keaton's Sailor and Laurel's Sad One--are blood brothers...