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...even bankrolled the recovery of our defeated enemy, Germany. In 1990 we debate whether perestroika in the Soviet Union will collapse into economic chaos and archaic nationalism, without any suggestion that we ought to do something about it. Meanwhile Senator Robert Dole wins acclaim by suggesting that what little aid we give to Eastern Europe ought to come out of our mite of aid to the rest of the world...
...launched his film career with Crossover Dreams, in which he starred as Rudy Veloz, a Latin boxer and aspiring singer who makes it big in English-speaking America. The role proved uncannily prescient. The one- two punch of good reviews for Crossover Dreams and a growing chorus of critical acclaim for Buscando America attracted ever larger numbers of English-speaking fans. Blades acknowledges his bilingual audience by making sure the lyrics to his songs are always printed on the jackets in Spanish and English...
...visa. Like most of those in the queue, he had something to flee from: the hard-line new government wanted him out and had banned his works from production or publication. Unlike most of the others, Havel had someplace to go: three of his plays had won acclaim in the West, and he had been offered both a job at New York City's prestigious Public Theater and a foundation grant to underwrite him in the U.S. for a year. But when a friend in the queue asked Havel if he really intended to leave, he said...
Through the '40s, Beckett kept writing, shifting, for reasons he never explained, from English to French as the language in which he created. He remained obscure until a spectacular burst from 1951 to 1953, in which Godot and three novels appeared to acclaim. The plays Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape and Happy Days followed by 1960. Thereafter he produced fewer and fewer, shorter and shorter, bleaker and bleaker pieces but never quite lapsed into the ultimate despair of artistic silence. His last work, Stirrings Still, a fiction of less than 2,000 words, was published in March...
Marrin, an HRO violinist, said Gubaidulina'smusic first gained a foothold in the United Statesafter she won acclaim for a performance in Bostonlast year...