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There will be considerable tension on June 30, the date by which the government must come up with $1.6 billion in foreign-debt payments. Quips Máximo Gainza, director of the right-wing La Prensa (circ. 50,000): "Our external debt is becoming an eternal debt."
For a year or so everything works as planned, and although some visitors cannot endure the strict regime, others are indeed returned to their homes much strengthened and freed of such Jewish characteristics as smoking, card playing and endless, idle conversation. But Balaban himself, strong and idealistic as he is...
Things get worse in the mountaintop hostel; the men who descend to the village to buy provisions are beaten up regularly. Yet no one thinks this strange; no one seems to be afflicted by a foreboding of doom. The book ends flatly, without the customary distant rumbling of a world...
The Pirandello characters, too, must play themselves, but in a more metaphysical sense. Each allegorical character follows his own inexorable law, fixed in a reality which never changes. Actress Linda Lavin plays the Mother, a character trapped in an eternal moment of grief. Lavin, who played the title role in...
The absence of stimulating conversation adds to the film's clumsy, amateur appearance. Most of the dialogue is either narrative or banal, offering little insight into the characters as people. When the characters are occasionally developed. Bridges resorts to stereotypes. Mike carries around a black book with names of available...