Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolution are nothing new to Central America or to Bernard Diederich, a Latin hand for 29 years, TIME's Mexico City bureau chief for ten and our man in Managua for the final seven weeks of the bloody Nicaraguan revolt. Diederich, who last month turned over TIME's Managua watch to Correspondent Roberto Suro, has reported on Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, the Dominican Republic civil war in 1965 and the 1969 "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras. Says Diederich: "The Nicaraguan civil war, which saw the cold-blooded execution of one American journalist...
Assistant Secretary of State Viron Vaky, who completed a fact-finding trip to Central America last week, found that Romero had retreated into a defiant "bunker mentality" not unlike the one that gripped Somoza during the final days of his dying regime...
Although they maintain friendly relations with their rebel counterparts in Central America, Nicaragua's new rulers appear too preoccupied by their internal problems to lend much assistance to their cause. They have gone so far as to ask the U.S. to supply them with modern weapons to replace the outmoded arms they used to topple Somoza's regime...
...central role is that of Prospero, the play's Grand Puppeteer, which was highly suited to the talents of Richard Burbage, for whom Shakespeare fashioned his Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Lear and other major parts. The role is more than three times as long as any other in the play, and the character has been thought to stand for God, Jesus, Fate, Justice, Art, Intellect, the Ideal Ruler, the Colonizer, the Grumpy Old Man, and a host of other things including Shakespeare himself...
...Morton (whom Bostonians will remember for his central role of Mr. Geeter in the long television series Watch Your Mouth, shown last year on WGBH) is giving the one outstanding performance in the current Tempest. With the splotchy face and long nails referred to in the text, Morton has worked out a fully rounded characterization. He crawls on his belly, he walks with a special bow-legged gait, and he indulges in puling vowels and animalistic exhalations of spleen. He knows how to emphasize the explosive consonants with which the dramatist peppered his part, and he displays a splendid singing...