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...fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family car, to reply, "Shut up and get in." For good measure, Mary, played by Myriem Roussel, has several nude scenes. Godard...
COLLECTED STORIES by Gabriel Garcia Márquez Translated by Gregory Rabassa and S.J. Bernstein Harper & Row; 311 pages...
There are no new stories in this collection or, for that matter, any that might be called semi-new. The most recent of the pieces dates from 1972. Nonetheless, many of these 26 works by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, will seem shiny and fresh to everyone but dedicated students of South American literature. The bulk of Garcia Márquez's short fiction was written before his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in Spanish in 1967 and in English three years later. That outlandish, exuberant chronicle...
...MICHAEL'S (60)-Joe Smoolea 2-0-4; Jim Deitz 2-0-4; Don Mailliard 0-0-0; Bob Milliken 11-0-22; George Daway 7-0-14; J.B. Brown 2-0-4; Matt Jones 2-0-4; Chirs Booth 2-0-4; Gus Gabriel...
There were minor Grenadian fireworks, however, in Washington. Reagan Administration officials vehemently denied a charge by Richard Gabriel and Paul Savage, military historians at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., who claimed that a "significant" number of U.S. commandos were not counted in the official casualty toll. While hotly disputing that assertion, Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch admitted that the names of only 88 of 115 injured servicemen were released, either to protect the identity of special U.S. forces or at the request of the wounded...