Word: yokels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfailingly photogenic in their squalor. The enchanting promiscuity of the landscape, the vagabond itinerancy, and the no-sweat amorality of the characters keep the narrative amiably in motion, unburdened by overt lecturing or tedious symbols. The native Cico, who might have been pressed into the boring documentary role of "yokel-from-the-primitive-hinterlands-who-learns-the-modern-world-fast-and-succeeds-in-the-city," more realistically straddles the two worlds, both awkwardly and heroically. He is the idealistic primitif, yet when the show busts, he promptly follows Lord Gypsy's lead in sending out his wife as a prositute...