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DIED. JIMMY GARCIA, 23, Colombian super featherweight boxer; two weeks after collapsing in the wake of an appallingly brutal title fight with Gabriel Ruelas; in Las Vegas...
...Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known as South America's William Faulkner with good reason. Both added new territory to the map of fiction. Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha is an imaginary county that contains nearly all one needs to know about the old South, the Lost Cause and the rise of the scalawag class. Garcia's Macondo is a conjured region of Colombia's Caribbean coast that holds the essence of Latin America's ruinous history. The power of these microcosmic worlds brought Nobel Prizes to both men and ensured their subsequent work the utmost attention...
...most recent offering, Del Amor y Otros Demonios, Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez reconstructs life in the colonialera Americas with his usual flourishes of magic realism. I've always thought that the way in which the Americas assumed its current form, or came to be--through a process shaped by desire and fear--is the most exciting, magical story of all. I feel very much like an explorer of old. So although my adventures in the United States are rapidly coming to an end, my--or rather, our--American adventure is just beginning...
When Marler attempts to ennoble ordinary episodes, however, he usually resorts to self-conscious high-culture references that are merely self-indulgent. When Marler recalls a day when Cambridge was buried in an inexplicable shower of white flowers, he is borrowing from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (as he explicitly states in the program) for no other reason than to borrow from Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By the time the play ends with a quote from The Waste Land, despite its near-irrelevance to what has come before, we are not surprised; the temptation to play with his literary knowledge, and stroke...
...once forgotten pop singer Thomas Dolby. Last year his Virtual String Quartet -- a 3-D imaging project in which people played computerized instruments in virtual space -- found its way to the SoHo Gallery of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Other performers, such as Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and Todd Rundgren, are venturing into the rapidly growing territory of CD-ROM, which takes the present CD a step further by adding visuals. Dylan's newly released Highway 61 Interactive serves as an elaborate audiovisual historiography. Besides 10 Dylan songs and four videos, it features an electronic scrapbook that includes...