Word: cortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pacino ought to have sprouted a long, pointy mustache for his Richard III so he could twirl it. Returning to the stage for this limited engagement (through July 15) at Broadway's Cort Theater, the man who mumbled so effectively through two Godfathers on-screen turns Shakespeare's "bunch-back'd toad" into a smarmy caricature villain out of silent movies and old comic strips; he personifies the sort of dastard who forecloses the mortgage on the family farm and threatens the virtue of fair young damsels...
John Keenan is hilarious as the highbrowed, effeminate sonneteer. And David Cort steals his brief scenes as Acaste, one in the flock of Celimene's suitors. Yet the evening remains unsatisfying...
Argentina is a country rich in every thing but stability. The nation has been so cursed by bloody political convulsions that its own best people have pro nounced their homeland incurable. Julio Cortázar's novel, A Manual for Manuel, is one Argentine expatriate's eccentric response to violence in his country (and to some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here...
...Cortázar wrote, he clipped news paper articles about political torture and other governmental outrages. He has his characters read these from day to day and paste them into a scrapbook for little Manuel, the baby son of two cell mem bers. The dispatches are photocopied in the novel so that the fictional Manuel, and all of the real Manuels who may be involved in the struggle some day, will know what their elders were fighting against. But there is no real attempt to examine the causes of right-wing terror or the pendulum swing left to counterterror...
...Cortázar finished his book in 1972, when the oppressive and ineffective General Alejandro Lanusse was President. A note to the American reader says that conditions under the present military government of General Jorge Videla are just as bad. This may be true, but it seems somewhat disingenuous not to have men tioned that between Lanusse and Videla was another leader of some notoriety. His name was Juan Perdn, and his two reigns covered some ten years (1946-55, 1973-74). His second coming lasted just one year. Then he died, leaving the country to his wife Isabelita...