Word: tribalized
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...against-black violence. Since 1986, some 10,000 people have died in an A.N.C.-Inkatha power struggle that in parts of Natal has taken on civil-war proportions. Even assuming the rivalry cools among top leaders, blood feuds, local turf wars, scrambling for scarce jobs, general intolerance and even tribal antipathy could spark continued fighting...
George Wendt describes his stage role -- as an alcoholic commodities trader who has gambled away his marriage, career and net worth -- as "Norm's evil twin." There isn't even that much difference between Wendt's characters. The guys gathered to roast in the tribal sweat lodge and discover the "wild men" within are losers, not predators, full of thwarted yearning and silly sweetness. One moment rises to real wit: a dream sequence in which a neglected son of a rich man summons his father, only to find the old man is as usual too busy and has sent...
...something without knowing how he will end it. He would like to halt the Serbian aggressors in their tracks, but he wants to take steps that provide clear, achievable objectives and that will encourage rather than cut off a political process leading eventually to a negotiated solution to the tribal wars. If he chooses to bomb the Serbs, he wants to be convinced that bombs will in due course push them into some mutually acceptable agreement...
...callin' right now," he coos. " 'C'mon, plug us in, we're ready to serve.' " For advice he turns to his next-door neighbor, a Robert Bly disciple whose conversation usually opens with an avuncular chuckle ("Ho-ho- ho-no-no-no, Tim") and ends with an anecdote about tribal customs...
...Tharp, like almost every other dancer in the program, is shown in disconnected snippets, often without explanatory context. The reason is that the series' interest in dance is less aesthetic than anthropological. The message seems to be that all peoples dance, ergo all dancing is equal -- even though some tribal rites, no matter how sacred they may be, are about as interesting to watch as the growth of bamboo. What's more, Dancing is multicultural with a vengeance, meaning that the producers think it insufficient to examine the central role that dance plays in primitive societies; they must also slam...