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Like many South American artists and writers, Neruda followed a course throughout his life that included diplomatic duty--first in Ceylon, Burma and other parts of then-very distant Asia, and then in Spain during the days of the Republic. It was in that latter time that he encountered the people--the young, political poets of Spain--and the passions of the Spanish Civil War. Both were poetic milestones that marked a profound change in his writing...
...heroines are me," says Rosemary Rogers. With her big dark eyes, full red lips, mass of raven hair and Las Vegas body, she looks the part - and she has lived some of it. The oldest child of a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools in Ceylon, Rosemary Jansz was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants - never did a lick of work - summers at European spas - impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers...
...initiating the pattern her heroines now follow, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing. After three years at the University of Ceylon, she horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter. Two years later she married a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." Unhappily, says Rosemary, he often sprinted after other women. At 28, she packed up her two daughters and took off for London, there to try the flamboyant high-and-low life her heroines always have a fling at. One day a middle-aged multimillionaire offered her a fancy flat in Paris...
...years later, when that marriage broke up ("It turned out we had only one interest in common," she explains), Rosemary was left with two sons and two daughters to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ? 100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield...
...productions, Tanz Forum's U.S. debut presents work that is generally unknown (in this country), and the problem with debuts is that sight unseen they are hard to predict. But Tanz Forum enjoys a reputation which growing internationally. The company has toured Europe, North Africa, Lebanon, Iran, Greece, India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, and now the United States. And the company is only six years...