Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politics has also been a major theme of Fuentes' literature. The Death of Artemio Cruz, his third novel, is a powerful indictment of the failures of the Mexican Revolution to bring social justice to Mexico...
...television performer, a film actress and, on a whim, one of the fashion world's most sought-after models. Joanna Pacula rose quickly through the disciplines of theater, film and TV acting in her native Poland; now she has the female lead in the Hollywood adaptation of Martin Cruz Smith's bestselling novel Gorky Park, and oh yes, she dazzled Vogue readers with a recent photo session...
...harborside hotel rooms, and the hoi polloi jammed the sidewalks. It seemed none of them (save the Queen) could help smiling and clapping or waving their $3 Union Jacks. Hundreds of overnight campers stood on lounge chairs or watched the spectacle on portable TVs. Nora de la Cruz brought her portrait of the Queen trimmed with cotton. Said she: "Too bad we could have no block parties...
...Solitude, a study that described a New World nation improvising a future from indigenous traditions and revolutionary ideals. Paz's dynamic countryman Carlos Fuentes measured the distance between Mexican dream and reality in two impressively executed novels, Where the Air Is Clear and The Death of Artemio Cruz...
...spicy three-course lunch near the Palacio de Bellas Artes and realized that "the amount of money we brought down here for two weeks could last half a year." At the delightful little Hotel Montejo in Mérida, Ted Mills and Jill Heizman of Santa Cruz, Calif., paid only $5.50 a night, about the average price they encountered during a month-long tour of Yucatan. Such bargains are all the more remarkable considering that this is the peak of the Mexican tourist season...