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...essays and novels reflect this fatalism, but she is nonetheless alive to others' sorrows and enthusiasms. The destruction of Amado's orchids in "Quiet Days in Malibu" by a flash fire confirms Didion's view of life as an unpredictable but inevitable series of large and small tragedies. In "The White Album," Didion notes that neither she nor her friends was surprised at the news of the Sharon Tate murders. She walks through her days anticipating horror, sporadically paralyzed by migraines, dreaming of "the children burning in the locked car in the supermarket parking lot...the freeway sniper who feels...
There's a marvelously funny scene in this cheerful Brazilian comedy-based on a novel by Jorge Amado-that depends for its effect on two social elements that would seldom be found together in a Hollywood or even European movie. One is enough permissiveness to allow the filming of nude actors going vigorously through the motions of sexual intercourse. The other that there is enough strictness and propriety so that the niceties of marital faithfulness and the awful pratfall of cuckoldry matter a great deal...
Like the elegant entertainments of Jorge Amado, it is filled with local allusions, jokes and satires-in this case Chilean-that few Yankee readers will know or even be aware...
...suspicions of graft arose, Torrijos had been close to the two rebellious colonels. One of them, mustachioed Colonel Ramiro Silvera, 42, had spent much of his career as Panama's top traffic cop before becoming Torrijos' No. 2 man in the Guardia. The other plotter, popular Colonel Amado Sanjur, 38, was Silvera's chief of staff...
DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, by Jorge Amado. A sensuous tale of a virtuous lady and her conjugal rites-as vivid and cheerfully bawdy as Boccaccio...