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...this quality of keeping the characters complex and bored Americans--not Bergman's cartherisized Swedes or Scorcese's narcoticized totems--that makes Cutter's Way so extraordinary. Not since Taxi Driver has an American film been so successful at showing us American in a whole new light, and hever has one managed it with such control of its self-conscious and cinematic form. Passer has come closer to making a masterpiece than anyone in the past few years...
...introspective fantasy to Jorge Luis Borges, who is perhaps the only original, yet uncommitted, modern Lating American writer. But Marquez directly faces U.S. exploitation is grotesque, often surrealistic terms. Marquez's novel has had extremely wide circulation in South America, has been read by people who would hever read the poems of Vallejo, even by fanatic reader of Agatha Christie translations...
Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties...
ROBERT F. HEVER...
Died. Lady Violet Astor of Hever, 75, wife of Lord Astor, owner of the Times of London, who spent her life as one of Britain's most energetic social-work volunteers until two years ago, when she and her husband left England for good to escape Britain's heavy death duties; after a long illness; at their Côte d'Azur villa in Pégomas, France...