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...judge what went wrong. The film's approach to its subject is often imaginative?particularly by the standards of conventional nonfiction movies. In addition to the expectable interviews with Lowry's surviving relatives and friends, Volcano fills out its subject's life and writing with ripe color photography of Cuernavaca's raunchy bars, Cambridge University's student haunts and Times
Still, few men take as harsh a view of medicine as Ivan Illich, 51, a Viennese-born priest who now makes his home in Cuernavaca. Mexico. An iconoclast who has already attacked another major institution in his 1971 diatribe Deschooling Society, Illich zeroes in on the health industry in his newest attack and leaves no doubt as to how he regards the target. "The medical establishment," he writes in Medical Nemesis opening sentence, "has become a major threat to health...
...information about the Mafia's organization and operations. In 1965 Giancana was jailed for refusing to answer the questions of a grand jury about Chicago's rackets. Released a year later, he fled to Mexico to escape further questioning and holed up in a walled estate near Cuernavaca...
Died. David Alfaro Siqueiros, 77, flamboyant Mexican muralist and onetime Communist leader; of cancer; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The last survivor of the famed triumvirate of painters who celebrated Mexico's peasant revolution (Jose Clemente Orozco died in 1949, Diego Rivera in 1957), Siqueiros was as noted for his political acts as for his artistic achievements. In the '60s he spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes...
Died. Tim Buck, 82, leader of Canada's Communist Party from 1929 to 1962; of a stroke; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The British-born son of a Tory pub owner. Buck immigrated to Canada in 1912 and helped launch the party nine years later. He faithfully toed the Kremlin line on everything from Stalin's prewar purges to the 1956 invasion of Hungary. Although the party managed to poll 111,892 votes in a 1945 federal election, the number of Communists in Canada had dwindled to fewer than 6,000 by the time he gave up the leadership...