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...novel “La pregunta de sus ojos” (“The Question in Their Eyes”), the film flits back and forth between 1974 and the present day, as it tells the story of Argentinean formal federal justice agent, Benjamín Esp??sito (Ricardo Darín) who is haunted by a 25-year old unsolved crime, as well as the lost opportunities in his love life. Benjamín’s quest for closure is put to the test when he decides to write a novel about the rape...
...Still tied 2-2, we'll be going to overtime. Our ZipCar, Carlos, has been waiting in the parking lot to take us back to Cambridge, and it looks like he'll have to wait a little longer. ¡Esp??ranos, Carlos...
BORN TO WEALTHY PARENTS, Vilma Esp??n, Cuba's unofficial First Lady, could have chosen a quiet life of opulence. Instead, the MIT-educated chemical engineer shouldered rifles, donned combat fatigues and joined Cuba's 1950s revolution alongside her husband Ral. A powerful member of Cuba's Communist Party, she accom-panied her divorced brother-in-law Fidel Castro to events and, as longtime president of the Federation of Cuban Women, became a respected voice for women's rights...
Wright's gift to Australian literature is Desperance. A fictional port town bypassed by history and even the tides, which have left it high and dry, Desperance embodies the roots of its name: despair and hope (esp??rance in French). Wright says Desperance could stand for any Australian town, or Australia itself. And it's her uncanny ear for the particularities of local language and eye for striking symbolism that could carry Carpentaria into the classics sections of bookshelves in years to come. There it would sit comfortably alongside Xavier Herbert's fictional study of Australia's Top End, Capricornia...
Ral has been married to Esp??n, a chemical engineer who studied briefly at M.I.T., for more than 45 years. His eldest daughter Dbora has Esp??n's nom de guerre. The couple has two other daughters and a son. Ral talks about his eight grandchildren with great pride. He has lived in the same modest house in Havana for as long as anybody can remember. His nephews and nieces go to him for advice...