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MINIMALIST ON ALL BUT the visual count, Nostalghia offers two hours of strikingly beautiful scenery, laced with exotic-looking characters and outbursts of Russian poetry. The film out stylizes every one in recent memory--at the expense, however, of plot, character, dialogue, and other such standard fare; emerging instead is...
The story begins in a small village in Guatemala. The Xuncaxes (Enrique's and Rosa's family) and their neighbors speak of "El Norte" in almost mystical tones. Yet what they actually chat about is quite mundane--flushable toilets, electricity, and cars: Good Housekeeping magazine is their window on the...
Cesaire's poetry was clearly influenced by Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as by the works of the American primitivists from the Harlem Renaissance, particularly Claude MacKay. But it was the style of the French symbolists he most admired. The first line of "The Griffin" ("I am a memory that...
Some important novels by Soviet exiles still remain inaccessible to U.S. readers. School for Fools (Ardis) by Sasha Sokolov, 40, has not gained adequate recognition because of difficulties in translation. Cast in the form of an internal dialogue between the two personalities of a schizophrenic youth, the novel is rich...
That expensive steel-and-sheet-metal postscript, the assembly building, shelters the newly assembled spacecraft until it is ready for loading. The job begins in a hulking concrete structure called the Payload Preparation Center, a stationary, 147-ft-high building. There, in a relatively particle-free chamber, the spy satellites...