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Chomsky’s most recent blunder came on his Oct. 28 lecture in Cuba. With Cuban President Fidel Castro in the audience, Chomsky argued that, after the failed effort in Iraq, Bush and his cronies would have to “manufacture” another enemy in order to be re-elected...
...usher during the intermission of the play Anna in the Tropics a few weeks ago. Her complaint: too much cigar smoking onstage. The usher patiently explained that the play is, after all, set in a cigar factory--a family-owned plant in Tampa, Fla., in 1929, where the Cuban-American workers have just hired a new "lector" to read novels to them while they work. Cigar smoke, however, is only one of the sweet and strange aromas that waft from Anna in the Tropics. Written in the lyrical, somewhat formalized language of a folktale, the play is both a slice...
...artistic transformations, one need look no further than the play's author, Nilo Cruz. The Cuban-American playwright labored in the regional-theater vineyards for years with little recognition. Then last spring, Anna in the Tropics--after a single production at a small theater in Coral Gables, Fla.--was the surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Now the play is a hot property, with three simultaneous stagings at regional theaters this fall, one of which--the McCarter Theatre's at Princeton, with Jimmy Smits playing the lector--is transferring to Broadway next month. Another of Cruz's plays...
Members of the audience lauded the 35th president, enumerating the many instances which showed Kennedy’s capacity as a leader, including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Civil Rights Movement...
...born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time." It's typical of Davis to ruin a perfectly good joke with a lie: his mother was Cuban, a nationality that was, in white America circa 1966, even less popular than Puerto Rican. But there's also a truth tucked inside the lie: Davis was running away from himself, as many ways as he possibly could...