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Other modern revisions of Christ's death portray the Nazarene as a martyred revolutionary a la Che Guevara, but Brown says the details do not fit that scenario, and besides, Jewish insurrections only arose a generation later...
Cubans take as fierce a pride in their revolutionary heroes as Americans do in the men of 1776: they are the nation's embodiments of freedom and independence. Che Guevara is their Lafayette, Fidel their George Washington. "He has a place in people's hearts that goes far beyond the Communist Party or government structure," observes mining executive McGuinty...
...TRUE REVOLUTIONARY IS GUIDED by great feelings of love," Che Guevara is quoted as saying in A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY (Pantheon; $25). By that standard, author Elaine Brown is a genuine radical. She tells an absorbing story of real struggle: how she became the leader of the Black Panther Party, how she and the party battled racism, and how she fought sexism within the group. Her prose is unpretentious and involving. She makes the political personal by recounting her affair with Huey Newton, founder of the Panthers. Newton is revealed as a difficult man, sometimes...
...Marx, Lenin and Mao. Under the guerrilla alias "Presidente Gonzalo," Guzman fashioned himself into the demigod of a cultlike political movement. As far as his supporters were concerned, Guzman's mythic aura of brilliance, charisma and invincibility shielded him from comparisons with other mortals. Latin Americans may regard Che Guevara as the model guerrilla, but Guzman dismissed him as an exhibitionist; besides, Che lacked Guzman's tolerance for slaughtering innocent women and children...
...operatic arias on DIVA! A SOPRANO AT THE MOVIES. Her finely colored voice with its firm vibrato is not elitist, and she sings this collection of songs that have made their way into films with a passion and abandon that would make Madonna envious. Garrett's plaintive Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro, and her flirtatious plotting in Quando m'en vo, from La Boheme, are the answer for those looking for substance in their tunes...