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BARBAROSA IS THUS NOT so much about these two men as about the legend that engulfs them both. Barbarosa, having escaped from the grave of his enemies by playing dead, goes back to the Zabala household. Inside they are already singing songs of his latest exploit, renewing the legend with their soleman incantations to kill him Barbarosa's smile belies his rapt attention, his pleasure at playing the role of mythical phoenix of the desert: in truth he thrives on the menacing proximity of the Zabalas...
...hand. President Reagan must be careful to retrain from belligerent anti-Soviet rhetoric. A nation like the U.S.S.R.--manned by new leaders anxious to gain a firmer foothold in power is unlikely to treat the President's words as mere bluster, and a precipitous response could have grave repercussions...
...postage stamp. Worse, no role is played by Canberra's one architectural asset, natural daylight. Without it, the paintings look embalmed. This accords with the programmatic opinions of one of the gallery's early advisers, the former American museum director James Johnson Sweeney, but it is a grave mistake...
...other stories, miscommunication takes place right at home, especially--where else--in bed. And this is where Atwood whips irony to a thick, using her acrid insight to turn human ambivalence on its back. In "The Grave of the Famous Poet" the narrator relates...
...Cuevas, secretary-general of the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations, said that while businessmen "do not agree with some of the Socialist plans," they sought "a sincere dialogue with the new government, because this is a fundamental of an employers' organization." Some businessmen expressed grave reservations at the prospect of a Socialist regime. Warned José Antonio Segurado, vice president of the employers' confederation: "You will see, after they try to spend too much to produce jobs they cannot deliver, they will start ruling by decree. They will control prices, and they will control wages. There...