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Technology seems to have created an illusion that it is an end in itself and not merely a means. Yet the human spirit and will have prevailed over military and material strength. American rationalization of its own global interests has led to misconceptions about the hold of nationalism in Asia...
Power of Illusion. The general even finds a perfect double to appear in public for him. When the double is assassinated, the dictator in effect attends his own funeral where, Garcia Márquez writes, "he saw with a hidden uneasiness those who had only come to decipher the enigma...
In the general's land, illusion -along with cold steel and bribery-is one of the foundations of absolute power. Even the livestock that eventually overrun the palace cannot tell the real from the fictional. Observes one foreign diplomat: "The hens were pecking at the illusory wheat fields on...
What would a fairy tale be without a wicked stepmother to impede the lovers? Barbara Lane plays the role up to the hammy hilt. The dances shiver the floorboards. Gerald Freedman directs at a cannonball pace without sacrificing the illusion that the show is taking place in an enchanted glade...
Died. Connee Boswell, 68, innovative songstress of the Big Band era, whose recordings of such hits as Whispers in the Dark and They Can't Take That Away from Me sold more than 75 million copies; of cancer; in Manhattan. Boswell, stricken by polio as a child, sang from...