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...stunning production of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a satire of dictatorship written at the height of the Nazi era, the action was shifted to a mythical region populated by figures reminiscent of Imelda Marcos, Anastasio Somoza and Fidel Castro. Harvard's American Repertory Theater relocated Jean Genet's The Balcony, a transvestite dream of sexual corruption in high places, to an unspecified Latin city gripped by revolution. Says JoAnne Akalaitis, who staged The Balcony: the Latin flavor imports "a much more visceral energy" and leads to "an art that family history, romance, politics and the history...
...Jean-Marie Alves '92 says she had no idea she would attend Harvard until her college visit last spring. "I applied to seven schools and had a really tough time deciding where to go. I think it was the friendliness of the people I met here that made the difference...
...funeral. Once a member of that Leftist clique that so desperately wants to stage the funeral as if it were a communist demonstration, Vera has spent time in France enjoying fame, fortune, and a respite from the horrors of current Chilean life. Accompanied by his thoroughly French son, Jean-Paul, Manungo revives his ambiguities concerning Chilean politics and the Left, becoming ensnared in the political longings that, according to Donoso, inevitably catch up with all Chileans. In the process he becomes involved in an affair with a former lover, Judit Torre, an elite Chilean who seeks to avenge her rape...
...drama began a week earlier, when Namphy attempted to reassign Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, a Manigat loyalist who was indicted in Miami three months ago on drug-trafficking charges. But Paul balked at being transferred to a less important military post, and was backed up by Manigat, who rescinded Namphy's order. Two days later, the President dismissed Namphy himself for "insubordination." Attempting to consolidate his power, Manigat had Namphy placed under house arrest and announced the reassignment or retirement of 37 officers...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Susan Lynd, Clementina Allured, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Adam Sexton, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...