Word: jose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice, giving South American writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life and art wholly at the command of the movement they support; some, like Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba, have differed with the revolutionists after giving them initial support; some, like Garcia Marquez, have kept away from direct political action yet still have served revolution in their writing...
Cullinan got to Vesco through mutual acquaintances among Costa Rican politicians. The result was a series of conversations in Vesco's opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...
...seems in sight. Student organizers at several universities were rounding up participants for an assault on the largest streaking record (see box). At Stanford University, preparations were being made for the longest streak, an 18-mile jaunt between Palo Alto and San Jose. At the University of Pennsylvania, students staged an undressed rehearsal for a fanciful "streak for impeachment" around the White House. Even President Nixon got into the spirit of things: when Reporter Sarah McClendon commented that his hair was graying at the temples, Nixon quipped, "They call that streaking...
Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Jose Ferrer, Friday and Saturday, March...
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) includes Jose Ferrer in a captivatingly romantic performance, perfectly suited to Edmond Rostand's lightweight romantic play. Eating half a macaroon, playing with his swords, swaggering about town, Ferrer is always as flamboyant as the part demands. Michael Gordon's direction is nothing special, and the rest of the cast is mediocre in this one-man show...