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PUIG IS not the magician with words that some of his contemporaries are; though perhaps partly the fault of the translator, his prose does not roll forward with the colorful sweep of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, does not maintain the lively, fresh tone of Julio Cortazar. Finally Pubis Angelical is not successful when considered as a whole. The three interwoven parts of the narrative do not converge to a single story; they are not unified by a definite connection between the characters, and their similarities do not, in the end, seem very convincing. The optimistic, peaceful conclusion of the novel...
Marine officers who train the embassy guards point out that their men had performed without a known security breach for 38 years. The fault, they argue, lies with lax supervision by State Department security officials. A Pentagon source said that a former security officer is under investigation for malfeasance at the Moscow embassy when Lonetree and Bracy were there. The State Department has brought its current security officer in the region home for questioning. As the State Department quizzes its employees at the 225-member embassy, the initial responses, says one source, "are discomforting...
Some of the fault lies with the American audience itself, which is likely to find the Andalusian character of the play foreign and strange. As a result, certain lines in this tragedy that would evoke sympathy or pathos in a Spanish audience evoke bewilderment, disgust, or even laughter in an American audience...
...most of the fault lies in the translation. Director Marya Cohn adapted an already existing translation herself, which means that the blame for the loss of Garcia Lorca's poetic diction and for the unusual interpretation of certain characters is hers. Poetry, even free verse such as Garcia Lorca's galloping, assonant verse. If the actors delivery of this awkward English version of Garcia Lorca's poetry falls flat at times, they may be excused...
...White House official, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified, said the President clearly intended to fault, U.S. personnel for the security breakdown at the Moscow embassy...