Word: tribalization
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...Trinidad's rangy (6 ft. 6 in.) Dancer Geoffrey Holder, who appeared in the big ballet that sprawls in the middle of the opera. Holder made a startling appearance, his long brown body bare except for a white bikini and a brilliant, feather-patterned headdress. In a primitive tribal dance that recalled his appearance last year in Broadway's House of Flowers, Holder leaped and writhed with a fierce catlike virility that more than matched Verdi's triumphal music...
...from his throne and sentenced him (on an allowance of $4,200 a year) to exile in Britain for life. But the clamor was far from stilled. In the years that followed, while Seretse studied law and sired two children, his case was argued again and again in the tribal councils of Bechuanaland and the corridors of London's Westminster...
...Tribal Patterns. Italian police were unhappily forced to concede that they have little effect on either Mafia or Crime Inc. Many Italians are inclined to blame police ineffectiveness on the fact that carabinieri forces in Sicily are staffed and directed by mainland Italians, who do not understand the Sicilian temperament and the intricate, tribal patterns of Sicilian behavior...
...Sunday Sam Young-Harry, 27, newscaster son of a Nigerian tribal chief (and producer of a local version of Twenty Questions in Lagos) rapped the record spinners for "insulting the audience's intelligence. They are just a prostitution of radio. One in Omaha would frequently play a few bars from a Beethoven symphony, then break it off with 'We're not interested in Beethoven's greatest, but only in Como's latest...
...last week in Pretoria, hundreds of South African women began to gather beneath the office windows of Prime Minister Johannes G. Strydom. Some were white, some were brown, most were black. Many wore the green-black-and-gold colors of the African National Congress, and many wore tribal regalia; many had traveled hundreds of miles by rickety bus across South Africa's dust-swept veld to get there, lunch baskets in their hands and babies strapped to their backs. All the women bore personal petitions to Strydom. Focus of their protest: the government's latest decree that African...