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Communism has not taken hold in Cuba, he believes, and when Castro dies the island will move away from its alien ideology. At that moment, Padilla predicts, thousands of exiles will return home and start new businesses with the money they have made in the U.S. But they will not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poet Heberto Padilla: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

The cruelest imagined torments of hell once seemed not only very real but a perfectly legitimate form of punishment, since God himself had permitted and even approved the eternal fires. And with what a hunger for retribution did Dante identify each king or warrior he reported seeing in the Inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mengele:Non Requiescat in Pace | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

AT FIRST GLANCE, The House of the Sports is the stuff of which television mini-series are made: A poor miner from a fallen family longs to marry the eldest daughter of a wealthy senator. But his beautiful bride-to-be dies before the wedding. Disconsole, the miner returns to...

Author: By Guad Y. Ohana, | Title: Lyrical Elocuence, Tortured Politics | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

Allende pays her debt to her stylistic forbears through imitation. As has been noted by several reviewers, a few characters in The House of The Spirits bear more than passing resemblance to creations of Marquez. Rosa the Beautiful, the daughter of Senator del Valle who dies before her marriage to...

Author: By Guad Y. Ohana, | Title: Lyrical Elocuence, Tortured Politics | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

If American public sculpture is in trouble, and it is, the response to Serra's work is not a cause but a symptom. Sculpture has largely lost the commemorative uses it had a century ago. It seems that Government bodies like the GSA think of it as a vague sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Trials Of Tilted Arc | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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