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Self-exiled Cuban Novelist Juan Arcocha, an old friend of Padilla's who now lives in France, insists that the poet's "selfcriticism could have been signed in only one way: under torture." That is unproven, but one thing is beyond dispute. Padilla's evidently forced recantation...
But to quarrel with Rosen's excesses is to ignore the crowded, incredibly detailed excesses of the world of which he writes. For, again and again, he'll turn a discussion of sports, dress, and, most of all, food into a brilliant metaphorical dissection of the quality of American life...
For a four-character film, the plot is convoluted. Jereme, an about-to-be-married diplomat vacationing in Annecy, by chance meets with an old writer friend, Aurora. She is living with a twice-married Frenchwoman and her two daughters in their bourgeois summer home, while trying to find some...
The film is not unamusing. Buck Henry has some nice pratfalls as the father (though I found Lynn Carlin labored as the wife); there is a Village rock audition featuring teen-age girls who struggle to ally themselves with crude and hopeless romantic lyrics; and an SPFC meeting during which...
In my jail, a precinct station house near George Washington University, there was a tall skinny brother from Texas, who had his leg broken by police because he did not move fast enough into a transporting bus. He was in great pain, but the police left him untreated for eight...