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Nonetheless, Duarte intended to drive up the rutted highway to La Palma, accompanied at most by a small contingent of aides, in his cocoa brown Jeep Cherokee. Even though his meeting might end in complete deadlock, El Salvador's first freely elected civilian President in 50 years was confident, as he told the U.N., that he could present the guerrillas with a "new reality." Said Duarte: "The Salvadoran people now have no doubt that subversive violence has lost its mystique and reason for existence." He backed his assertion with the offer of an amnesty if the guerrillas agreed...
Over the past year, the civilian population has grown used to the contra presence and now provides a network of assistance. Our patrol carries rations of dried beef, rice, roasted cocoa beans and sugar, but peasants along the way offer us tortillas, bananas and water. More important, the local campesinos act as couriers and give our patrol intelligence about Sandinista troop movements. On the third and fourth nights of our trek, we are invited to sleep at peasant homes. During the days, we frequently take long rests at farmhouses. The contras chat easily with our hosts, some of whom...
...from cultural schizophrenia: "I . . . shall always be two people in one skin, which is not a comfortable thing to be." Only Anjuli can make him whole. As the Indian princess, Amy Irving is properly equipped with saris and cliches, but she looks as though she had been dipped in cocoa for the role. Still, Irving bears up well in a difficult part; it cannot have been easy to play a dignified love scene and utter lines like ". . . men are careless of their seed...
...seems to have gripped even one of the stage's most adroit neorealists, Marsha Norman. She won her reputation with the 1979 drama about a woman's leaving prison, Getting Out, and last year received the Pulitzer Prize for 'Night, Mother, a mundanely detailed conversation over cocoa and marshmallows between a daughter who intends to commit suicide and a mother desperate to stop her. Now, in Traveler in the Dark, Norman has turned away from the art-as-life style and has crafted a witty, eloquent, far-ranging and altogether too clever play...
...previously demonstrated understanding of women, and a hearteningly grand ambition. The play seeks to debate science and faith, love and self-knowledge, the rage to grow and the resistance to change. Norman writes candidly and capably about God, reason and honor. And those topics do count for more than cocoa and marshmallows. - By William A. Henry...