Word: tribalized
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Manuel Córdova-Rios is a simple man. He draws no moral from his experience; his descriptions of jungle cures and tribal society are tantalizing rather than complete. Still, he is a superb storyteller. His rich, supple prose re-creates the darkness of the rain forest-its dangers, omens and teeming, insistent life...
These animal pantomimes and the sensory training in the earlier Tribal Players skits eventually lead up to full improvisations. A group enacted wind-up toys who ran low on energy and shouted to be wound up again. Another group played race cars, an announcer ran around balls on an imaginary pool table, and a group improvised on the theme of being lost in the woods. "Children are the center of our curriculum," said Anne McNamara. "Other thins revolve around them. We can completely justify 'How Can I Tell You" in our curriculum. It's a beginning and a middle...
...bourbon in the Hotel Continental, for years one of Vientiane's only two hotels. No American girl who values her reputation enters the Continental bar/lobby; here the French drinking companions are American pilots-employed by Air America, paid by the CIA, earning $1000 a week for airlifting "rice" to tribal villagers, drowning out the echoes of antiaircraft fire with dope and liquor. "Laotian neutrality" and American "food aid" are pretty good jokes when you're ripped...
...chief is not exactly an innocent plucked from the reserve. A few years ago one of his sons, who was in the production at the time, landed him a role as a tribal elder in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, Cariboo Country. His first film was a Walt Disney western entitled Smith!, with Glenn Ford. He delivered the eloquent speech, given in 1877 by the venerable Nez Perce chief, Joseph, with only one hitch: Dan George speaks Squamish, not Nez Perce. They made do with Squamish...
...Late King Freddie. As Uganda neared independence a decade ago, the shrewdly opportunistic Obote skillfully manipulated the hereditary leaders of Uganda's four tribal kingdoms. He won the support of Sir Edward Mutesa II, the Kabaka of Buganda (more widely known as "King Freddie"), by promising to create a federal system that would preserve the identity of the four kingdoms. After independence in 1962, Obote became Prime Minister and the Kabaka became President. Four years later, however, Obote attempted to unify the country by ousting the Kabaka; forced into penniless exile in London, Freddie died of alcohol poisoning...