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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics, in a sniveling attempt to place Donoso in a genre, have often compared him to Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquees. Their similarities--in subject matter and setting, for example--stem only from the aspects of Spanish colonial heritage common to Chile and Colombia The mixing of several cultures gives these writer a wider range of plausible stories, as well as a greater sense of freedom to experiment with the unlikely. But unlike Marquez, Donoso derives much of his energy from the extreme self-consciousness of his art Each time Donoso turns from one event to another, he explains that...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Art of Artifice | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

They had a TWA jet named Gabriel and an Air France jet named Evangeline, and the Governor, an enormously popular Democrat, rode Evangeline. Edwards was Governor from 1972 until 1980, when he was blocked by the state's constitution from seeking a third successive term. He came back last fall, when he was eligible, and recaptured the office from the Republican incumbent, David Treen, who fell from grace with the electorate for committing the unpardonable sin-in Louisiana-of being dull. The Governor's raven-haired daughter Vickie explained the public's fondness for Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting the Good Times Roll | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...suit, brought on behalf of Gordon's improbably named 15-year-old nephew Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramaphone Getty, had been started by the teen-ager's father, J. Paul Getty Jr., 51, Gordon's older brother. The two siblings have seldom got along. Gordon's lawyers charged that oil company officials coerced J. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texaco and Getty Oil: History's Biggest Takeover? | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage, 71, and Philip Glass, 46, Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 64, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, 57, Rock Singer Peter Gabriel, 33, and Cellist Charlotte Moorman, 44, once celebrated for her topless playing. Directed by Paik from the Pompidou Center in Paris and by George Plimpton, 56, acting as host at a studio in Manhattan, the one-hour live broadcast is described by Paik as a "celebration." Presumably, Big Brother will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 2, 1984 | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. The 1982 Nobel laureate mixes imagination and fact into a suspenseful novella of honor and revenge in a Colombian town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: THE BEST OF 1983: Books | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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