Word: alvarezes
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...year-old author Al Alvarez, whose memoir, Where Did It All Go Right?, will be published next year, the tragedy of Sept. 11 will have a beneficial effect if it reawakens writers to the emotional power of fiction. "I think we are done with post-post modernism and the novel-within-the-novel. There is no room for these intellectual games now. As Freud put it around 1919, speaking of all the men's lives lost in World War I and how shallow the world had seemed before then: 'Life has become interesting again. It has recovered its full content...
Watching his understated performance as a waiter in Big Night prompted actress and producer Salma Hayek to cast Anthony in her forthcoming Showtime production of Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies. He plays the small but pivotal role of Lio, a political activist in the Dominican Republic during Trujillo's regime. "When I met him, I knew he was perfect for the role," says Hayek. "Lio, like Marc, has this larger-than-life spirit that can convince you anything is possible." The film was shot in Veracruz, Mexico, with an all-Latin cast and director...
...Hence the need to bring depression, and its sufferers, out of the shadows. Not that there's any shortage of material on the subject. Alongside some noxious self-help manuals, there have been remarkable personal accounts - William Styron's Darkness Visible, A. Alvarez's A Savage God - and excellent academic texts like Kay Redfield Jamison's Night Falls Fast. But Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression (Chatto & Windus; 560 pages) is poised to become the book for a generation that, more than any other, has this "living death" at its core...
...They were more than just partners. Their personalities really seemed to complement each other,” says Aida Alvarez, a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers who was instrumental in selecting Summers as president and worked with Rubin on a small business mentorship program. “Larry had a more academic background and [Rubin] had a more business background,” she says...
...very concerned about microbusinesses and micro loans,” Alvarez says. “Rubin really saw a need to focus on the needs of the small entrepreneur and cared about cities...