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...BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC...
Petric is currently a visiting professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at the State University of New York College at Purchase...
American warplanes were already taking their toll in 1967. A ten-year-old kid, who guides a water buffalo plowing the rice fields, refuses to heed an air-raid warning, instead remaining with his animal. An anti-personnel bomb hits near him, killing the buffalo and tearing his shoulder to shreds with one of its sinister pellets. Greene shows him in a hospital, in screaming pain as his injury is being tended to. His agony, his tears, are a vivid reminder of the searing guilt no amount of post-war reparations could ever repay...
...says with wonderful pride that he works there as a "holy water carrier." He sees two Muslim men, their bodies blackened with soot, dancing at midday on a deserted street of a small village. Driving along a highway he stops to film vultures stripping a dead water buffalo of its flesh, burrowing into its eyes and mouth. His images of vitality alternately excite and disgust...
THESE OVERPRIVILEGED Americans have had tremendous advantages. By the time they arrive in Cambridge they have been class presidents and National Merit finalists, and secretly wonder whether or not Jesus of Nazareth is their half brother. But they prefer to look like Indians and smell like buffalo...