Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murray Silberman San Jose, Costa Rica...
...keeping with the simplicity of the film's humor, Allen has none of these characters develop any signs of full-fledged humanity. The flat roles allow several characters to be the butt of jokes, but one wonders whether characterization is a necessary sacrifice to comedy. Perhaps it is, since Jose Ferrar gets to play a totally unbelievable, but very funny intellectual snob. He smirks; the camera closes in, and he almost purrs his line: "I did not create the cosmos, I merely explain them...
...Usulutan, the western pasture lands and the capital itself. The Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan. "It was a stupid, macho decision," said a Western ambassador in San Salvador. "They have to clean out the vital areas of the country before going up into that wasteland...
...Mexico's 21st President since its epochal revolution of 1910. Like most of his predecessors in the 53-year history of Mexico's monolithic and dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), De la Madrid was the personal choice of the man he was replacing, in this case Jose Lopez Portillo, 62. De la Madrid's campaign was designed not so much to guarantee him victory-that was assured under Mexico's system of "guided" democracy-as to give him the political savvy to handle...
Lopez Portillo's critics to be what the Mexicans call aviadores (flyers), meaning that they are imaginary jobs for which someone is drawing an extra salary. Lopez Portillo himself raised eyebrows by putting his son Jose Ramon Lopez Portillo on the government payroll as a subse-cretary in the Ministry of Programming and Budget and hiring his sister as the country's director-general of radio, television and cinematography...