Word: colombianizing
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...unreachable, expectations. The first issue is certainly lavish (290 glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More predictably in a culture magazine, there are discerning reviews by Novelist Robert Stone of Joan Didion's Latin American reportage...
Several are foreigners, and Stein, who brought them together, provides some background: Julio Santo Domingo is a Colombian "whose father runs Avianca Airlines," Giora Rachminov is an Israeli "who does diamonds," and Mimmo Ferretti is the son of a Milanese clothing manufacturer. Ferretti is a last-minute replacement for Baron Roger de Cabrol, who is sick. "We wanted to call the band Euro-trash," Stein says, "but, instead, they're called the Greencards." He is grinning: a green card is the Government document issued to resident aliens...
Betancur certainly sounded nonaligned. Even his public remarks at lunch with Reagan, after their 45-minute private talk, were harsh. He said that Colombian products are denied full access to the U.S. market by tariffs, that the U.S. should prod the IMF to lend more money more easily to countries like his, and that industrialized powers generally renege on their vague, rosy promises to help developing countries. Alluding to the unaccommodating U.S. attitude toward Marxist Nicaragua, Betancur said that hemispheric interests are ill served "either by pressure or isolation." Reagan did not reply in kind. His speech, muted and conciliatory...
Reagan's tour was more courteous than momentous, meant to create an impression of U.S. sensitivity rather than diplomatic coups. For all that, Reagan handled himself well. He delighted the Brazilians, treated Colombian contrariness with aplomb and showed requisite concern toward Central American countries. An unambitious agenda, to be sure, but in its approach to Latin America the Reagan Administration can do worse than behave with simple, graceful solicitousness. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Douglas Brew with Reagan and Gavin Scott/Brasilia
...million Germans will buy VCRs this year. Cassettes of U.S. movie hits like Patton and Cabaret, plus soft-and hardcore pornography, have proved so popular that a well-known chain of coffee stores was all set to add a line of cut-price VCRs to its menu of Colombian prime and Brazilian Mocha. It backed off only when video shops threatened to retaliate by selling discounted coffee...