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...Catholic Church - as well as the considerable hostility toward the Miami leadership displayed on Cuba's streets during protests over Elian - suggest that post-Castro Cuba may not simply turn back the clock and revert to the pre-Castro country from which the older generation of Miami exiles were driven...
Sontag acknowledged that In America has been criticized, citing one writer who claimed that Sontag did not present any new ideas about America in the book. But she said there are no new ideas about America and that it is not the novelist's job to create idea-driven writing...
...warm sun, the gentle breeze, the beautiful climate of California during spring break could make anyone, even a driven Harvard student, into a lethargic mess for a week...
...made resplendently luminous in Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 164 pages; $30), a long narrative poem with a number of stories on its mind. One is what Walcott modestly calls his "inexact and blurred biography" of the painter Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors were driven out of Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan museum, of an "epiphanic...
...next Fisher? That's why, sitting at a Melrose Avenue cafe early this year, Fisher and Wasserman seemed more relieved than elated. There are now at least 1 million songs available for download on MP3.com "It's already too saturated," Wasserman said. "This is going to become a single-driven business. I mean, as soon as every big-name artist has a presence online, who's going to look for an unknown band like...