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...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...into waiting paralyzed for a promised pension that never arrives. The whole town waits for death--the individual or collective crisis that might give them a sense of direction, something to fight against--and when death comes it comes as an anticlimax. The "leaf storm," the invasion of the banana company with its false prosperity and erratic electricity and ersatz shelters for its army of migrant workers, passes over the town but disdains to destroy it. The Buendias fail to ignite the town as they burn themselves...
...their skills without worrying about making their career by giving transcendent performances or surrendering to constricting roles. And the glamor of the story seems to inspire them--they act by reflex rather than by instinct, they practice what they know. No one strains because the humor--basically Three Stooges, banana peel, breach-of-dignity stuff--has the dashing characters play as if they'd seen too much Douglas Fairbanks themselves. When every swinging rope snaps and every fencing would heals almost instantly, they don't have to take themselves too seriously...
...turkeys are the riders that you see everyday. They are the students who want to get down from the 'Cliffe in less than fifteen minutes, the Cambridge kids on their Banana Bikes--the bread and butter of bicycling in the area. Before you laugh at them, realize that bicycles really are the fastest transportation in the city. Cyclists have been known to pass police cars, even when the police have the aid of their siren...
...appeasement of his daughter's kidnapers by Randolph Hearst is, in a word, appalling. The example set by the Hearst kidnaping can only result in more of the same. The U.S.: North America's first banana republic...