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Frank Borges, chief of staff to Sen. Salvatore Albano (D-Somerville), who beat incumbent Vincent J. Piro with a sticker campaign in 1984, thinks Graham has a chance of victory if she works hard.
As for the candidate's pitch, Borges said, "You have to say, `I know my name's not on the ballot, but I want you to put it there.' And most people will say, `What? Are you crazy?'"
Graham, who nearly lost her City Council re-election campaign last November, is up against more than voters' ignorance, said Borges.
Hispanic playwrights are only the most prominent part of a fast-growing Latin presence in the U.S. theater. Actor Raul Julia, whose career expanded from low-budget off-Broadway shows into films, regularly returns to the New York stage to play such classics as The Tempest and Arms and the...
Of these four playwrights, Sanchez-Scott is closest to the Latin American tradition of "magic realism," in which visionary or hallucinatory elements coexist with a gritty naturalism much as they do in the fiction of Borges and Garcia Marquez. In the play on which her reputation rests, Roosters, what seems...