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...other Harvard group, Talento Falta ("talent is lacking"), made its world premiere last night. Talento Falta performs more contemporary and popular Mexican and Chicano dance...
...Odor of menace" is an apt description of Stone's fictional atmospherics. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. "The way," the poet is told once the trip has begun, "is to go up the mountain and make it all complete." In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that "this drink...
...volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone?s novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet is told once the trip has begun, ?is to go up the mountain and make it all complete.? In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts...
...volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone?s novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet is told once the trip has begun, ?is to go up the mountain and make it all complete.? In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts...
...most expensive at $425-four rooms. Often there was a demand for "key money," say $200, to speed negotiations. We saw only two apartments that had no dirty dishes in the sink. It was not that the maids were lazy. Rio as usual was suffering from a falta d'agua (water shortage). All but two had a bathtub of rusty water with a saucepan nearby for a dipper. Water ran briefly only at morning & night...