Word: antonio
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...People don't realize how small the city of Boston is," says Antonio L. Rodriguez, a visitor representative for Boston tourism information. "For the past couple weeks they've been extremely tight, and that's due only to fall foliage...
...Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicultural world of 1994 Venice Beach, California, where Sellars lives when he isn't setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic plays and operas. Shylock, along with the play's other Jews, is black. Antonio, the merchant of the title, and his kinsmen are Latinos. Portia, the wealthy maiden being wooed by Antonio's friend Bassanio, is Asian. But the racial shuffling is just one of Sellars' liberties. The stage is furnished with little but office furniture, while video screens simulcast the actors in close...
...argue that the U.S. and the exiles would do better to encourage change on the island with economic incentives, as Washington has done with other communist holdouts like China and Vietnam. "All those congressional bills say, 'Unless you do what we want, we'll kick your ass,' " says Juan Antonio Blanco, director of a private think tank in Havana. "What we need is not threats but an offer of help...
What can the White House expect from the new Whitewater independent counsel? As a Baptist minister's son growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Kenneth Starr admired Richard Nixon. "I really identified with Nixon because of his rather humble roots," Starr has said. Today, as a 48-year-old lawyer and veteran of the Reagan and Bush Administrations, he speaks wishfully of Dan Quayle's political future. "If President Quayle asked me to become the solicitor general again, I'd do it," he told TIME in a recent interview. His appointment has Republicans cheering and Democrats worried. Republican Congressman...
...affair with U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros filed a lawsuit against him, claiming he stopped paying her an agreed-to $4,000 a month. Cisneros has admitted that he and Linda Medlar had a two-year affair when he was mayor of San Antonio in the late 1980s. She says she wants payments until her 16-year-old daughter graduates from college...