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Everything about The King Stag is enchanting. The Forest of Miracoli, where Deramo goes hunting with Tartaglia, is filled with parrots whose gorgeous plummage creates a fluttering rainbow swirling in the air. Clever back-lighting on a pale skrim projects a prancing menagerie of lions and tigers and bears. A poor of light, lit from below the stage, suggests a woodland stream around which the overhead-lighting throws a sun-dappled forest floor. The fragile nobility of the two stags, with their breathtakingly lovely coats of the palest pastel, steal the forest show...
...right in order to recover all the other voting groups that have forsaken it. Says Ronald Walters, a Howard University political scientist who was Jesse Jackson's deputy campaign manager: "There will not be many people left who are willing to listen to the concerns of the Rainbow Coalition...
...support of the party, be elected. In other words: not participation by individual merit but group participation with rewards shared by the numbers of race. He ran this course into the campaign: blacks must wait for Jesse's "signal," white politicians must negotiate for black votes through his Rainbow Coalition...
...Against the opinion of some advisers, he was host of NBC's Saturday Night Live. He brought along his own censor, Harvard Psychiatry Professor Alvin Poussaint, to vet the scripts; Jackson excised at least one joke from a funny monologue about people who are unwelcome to join his Rainbow Coalition. (The rejected line: that "really, really, really poor people" were not included...
...antimanners of an elaborate antistyle. Not everyone is wearing a blue blazer and short hair. At the crowded Astor Place Haircutters, a few dozen blocks from the orchid-scented salon of Monsieur Marc, the walls are decorated with a cellophane-taped montage of punk haircuts: the teeth cut, the rainbow cut, the fungi cut, the oh, s&$151;-- cut ("We call it that," says Owner Enrico Vezzo, "because that's what the customer says when he looks in the mirror...