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Although the election victory was a sizable step in consolidating Aquino's power, serious obstacles remain. Beyond the chronic problems of poverty, unemployment and a sputtering economy, doubts linger about the loyalty of the military; a majority of the country's soldiers apparently voted for the opposition. Defense Minister Rafael Ileto discounted the importance of this, $ but did not rule out the possibility that some disgruntled soldiers might be persuaded to take part in yet another plot against the President. The military's displeasure centers on the charge that Aquino has been too soft on the 18-year-old Communist...
...modest scale, and Cubans grew accustomed to it. Moonlighting for extra income became commonplace among Cubans with skills in plumbing, shoe cobbling, auto repair and other personal services given short shrift by the centralized economy. Homebuilding turned into a lively cottage industry that helped ease the island nation's chronic housing shortage and rewarded the handy. Faring best of all were the country's farmers, who were allowed to sell items produced in excess of government quotas on the open market. "Some farmers became millionaires," says TV Commentator Roberto Agudo. "They began to think of nothing but acquiring things...
...stroke and two senior citizens with cancer, most of the protagonists in this collection of short stories suffer from Updike's disease. By now readers should be familiar with the symptoms: a wistful feeling of dislocation from the things and relationships of routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog. Alcohol abuse, infidelity and a numbing lack...
...loves cooking and other men. Donal Logue plays this character with flair, but also with a touch of caricature. Entering from stage left is Mrs. Boyle (Jennifer Hodges), who wears far too much makeup on her face and powder in her hair. Boyle is a "bloody bat," a chronic complainer trapped at Monkswell Manor by the ongoing blizzard. But Hodges lacks the voice and mannerisms for which the part calls...
...Radcliffe woman. Yet it was a period, as Schumer tells us, characterized by a particular neurotic confusion. It was a time when women--or at least those Schumer describes--lived for weekly pshchoanalysis sessions, fell in droves to the anorexia-bolemia plague--as did Schumer herself--and suffered chronic depression...