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Libra is, in fact, another conspiracy theory, although considerably more literate and entertaining than most. Imagine a small cadre within the CIA angered over the Kennedy Administration's bungling of the Bay of Pigs invasion and worried that J.F.K. is making some secret accommodation with Castro. One spook hatches an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reimagining Death in Dallas LIBRA | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

But Unsent Letters is not so much an escape from reality as a transformation of it. Underneath the jokes lie a good deal of authentic, entertaining autobiography and many shrewd observations of the current literary and academic scenes. Readers not preoccupied with literary correspondence of their own will find it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Special Delivery UNSENT LETTERS | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

This tangle among diverse strands of the Latino community is reflected in the tango of Anglo movie moguls and Hispanic moviemakers. The industry sees its Hispanic films as good deeds with limited commercial prospects, and ! Hispanic directors worry about making films that are both exemplary and entertaining. The result is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Born In East L.A. | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

On this evening, though, the crowd has come for something special. Like middle-class Italian kids flocking to see Sinatra at Carnegie Hall, the young Cuban Americans have gathered to see the reigning Reina de la Salsa, Celia Cruz, who was entertaining their parents and their parents' parents in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shake Your Body | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

Carey's title provides an answer to the first and most obvious question: Who on earth would go to the considerable trouble of making a glass church materialize in the Australian outback? Why, Oscar and Lucinda, naturally. But who are (or were) they, what brought them together, and why did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Joys of Glass and Gambling OSCAR AND LUCINDA | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

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