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After Somalia's longtime dictator, Mohammed Siad Barre, was overthrown by a coalition of clan-based armies last January, he was replaced as President by Ali Mahdi Mohammed of the Hawiye clan in central Somalia. In September the new President's authority was challenged by General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, a fellow clansman and chairman of the ruling United Somali Congress. The President, meanwhile, has been trying to have Aidid ousted from his position as party leader. An estimated 500 people were killed in street fighting two months ago. Weapons flooded the city, and most urban males began carrying rifles. After...
...combination would probably amount to a hostile takeover, since two Colombo factions are said to be on the brink of a major gangland war. When the Colombos aren't bickering, they're active in businesses ranging from loan- sharking to air freight and liquor distribution. Meanwhile in the Bonanno clan, reputed boss Joseph Massina, 48, is serving a 10-year sentence for racketeering. His brother-in-law is reportedly trying to keep alive the gang's main trade, nationwide drug trafficking, despite a supposed Mafia narcotics...
From all this Friel evokes great sadness, made sadder still by hints and outright warnings from the narrator about what else will befall the beleaguered clan in the half-century between the time he recalls and the time he now inhabits. Yet the play also evokes great joy, in small but vivid exchanges of everyday talk and, most boldly, when the sisters erupt, at home and alone, in the life-embracing energy with which they might once again have danced at Lughnasa...
...Brady clan -- three boys, three girls, two parents (Florence Henderson and Robert Reed) and Alice, the wisecracking maid (Ann B. Davis) -- has puttered along in reruns ever since the show's cancellation in 1974 after five seasons on ABC. Now it has re-emerged, on the stage, in a bizarre bit of media reversal called The Real Live Brady Bunch. Mounted by a Chicago alternative- theater troupe, the show is alarmingly simple in concept. Episodes of the old sitcom are merely re-enacted, scene for scene, line for line. (A new episode is performed every week; a game-show parody...
TELEVISION Here's the story -- again -- of a clan named Brady...