Woman, No Cry" from the Natty Dread album. This was followed by his breakthrough album in the US, Rastaman Vibration (1976), which spent four weeks on the Billboard charts Top Ten. In December 1976, two days before "Smile Jamaica", a free concert organized by the Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley in an attempt to ease tension between two warring political groups, Marley, his wife, and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an assault by unknown gunmen inside Marley's home. Taylor and Marley's wife sustained serious injuries, but later made full recoveries. Bob Marley received only minor injuries in the chest and arm. The shooting was thought to have been politically motivated, as many felt the concert was really a support rally for Manley. Nonetheless, the concert proceeded, and an injured Marley performed as scheduled. Bob Marley Live a painting by Steve Brogdon 1992
Have you noticed for example, how often after a home-team victory fans crowd into the range of a TV camera, thrust their 9Take, for example, the case of Andres Escobar who, as a member of the Colombian national team, accidentally tipped a ball into his own team's net during a World Cup soccer match in 1994. The "auto- goal" led to a u.s. team victory and to the elimination of the favored Colombians from the competi- tion. Back home two weeks later, Escobar was executed in a restaurant by two gunmen, who shot him 12 times for his mistake. _ _ Chap ter 5 LIKI NG 1 1;;I.II;llllli~I~~II~ Team spirit Sports goes a step Fan(atic)s beyond wearing the
students and their Goddess of Liberty from the Square. One of the most vivid examples of this retaliatory movement in films is in Red River, when Tom Dunson has been toppled from his throne by his foster-son, M a t t h e w Garth, in a central Supreme Ordeal. In the Reward stage, while M a t t and his men are celebrating in the town where they've sold the cattle, Dunson is busy recruiting a small army of gunmen. In T h e R o a d Back phase, he comes riding after M a t t with the force of a railroad train and the stated intention of killing his adopted son. W h a t had been a story of overcoming obstacles on a cattle drive now becomes a story of a parent stalking his child to get revenge. T h e peculiar force of this passage is carried in John Wayne's physical acting. H e lurch es toward the showdown with Montgomery Clift like a zombie, with the unstoppable