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...Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...first it seems rather surprising that a translator as extraordinarily gifted as Edith Grossman should have rendered the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book, Doce cuentos peregrinos, as Strange Pilgrims. The Spanish literally means something like "Twelve Peregrine Tales." Yet a Spanish/English dictionary will tell you that "peregrino," besides "pilgrim" or "peregrine," also means "strange," "exceptional," and "perfect." It's easy to sympathize with Grossman, for there is no way to convey these connotations in one word. However, all those words are perfectly applicable to Garcia Marquez's first book since The General in His Labyrinth...
...subculture, that of the Travellers, or Celtic Gypsies. It is their grandfather, who continues to follow the old, threatened ways, who brings the animal he calls ! Tir na nOg (Land of Eternal Youth in Gaelic) to them in the unhappy Dublin housing project where they live with their father (Gabriel Byrne), who abandoned his free-roving heritage after his wife's death...
...next film scheduled in the series, "Into the West," will be shown by Brown next Saturday in the Carpenter Center. One of the film's two primary stars, Ellen Barkin and Gabriel Byrne, might attend, Posner said...
...album is full of such congenial collaborations and astonishments: Nelson with Sinead O'Connor on Peter Gabriel's anthem of tentative renewal, Don't Give Up; Nelson and Bonnie Raitt making Getting Over You into a dialogue of broken hearts; Dylan co-writing and singing with Nelson on a fine new song, Heartland, which has the aura and impact of a Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl ballad; Nelson singing on his own, cutting loose on a joyous Willie Dixon blues and having a great time visiting Simon's Graceland...