Bored with spoofing Governor Ronald Reagan and the Establishment, a group ol young “with it” players known as the San Francisco Minie Troupe have concocted a skit designed to outrage the liberals in their audience. The scene is Boston’s King Street on the frosty night of March 5, 1770. A crowd of patriots merrily toss paving stones, jagged chunks of ice, and oyster shells at Captain Thomas Preston’s redcoats standing guard before the Custom House; they taunt the soldiers with cries of “lobsterback”—the eighteenth- century equivalent of “pig.” Upstage, on the fringe of the crowd, a Negro street cleaner sweeps the gutter, ignoring the hubbub. Suddenly the crack of musketry is heard. Five men fall, including the Negro sweeper.

“That was the role played by Crispus Attacks in the American Revolution,” says the narrator.

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