Word: jose
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Jason Robards was a journeyman actor when he auditioned for Director Jose Quintero in 1956 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. After reading for another role, Robards asked for a chance to try the climactic final monologue of the central character, Hickey, a backslapping little salesman some two decades older than the lean, magisterial Robards was then. Of the reading, Quintero says: "The way he peeled away Hickey's cheerful front to get to the madness and guilt underneath was terrifying." Robards got the part, the production established both him and Quintero as major forces...
During the past month, Latin American leaders have gone on a lectern- pounding campaign for concessions from their lenders. Brazilian President Jose Sarney, among others, took the appeal to the U.N. General Assembly. Declared Sarney: "Brazil will not pay its foreign debt with recession, not with unemployment, nor with hunger." Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez, whose country owes $14 billion, has threatened to pull out of the IMF unless the agency gives his country more breathing room. Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took a similar, if less militant, stand. Even before the deadly earthquake hit last...
Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, Associate Editor Anastasia Toufexis and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison make up the Health & Fitness team. Promises Ferrer: "We want to take a newsy story and approach it with enthusiasm and a careful eye. We won't be carried away by faddism." Says Toufexis, a veteran medical writer who likes ballet, gymnastics, diving and bicycling: "I used to be obsessive, but now I enjoy exercise in moderation." Harbison, who is a runner, gymnast and tennis player, believes in the long-term benefits of sport. Says she: "I'm not out to beat other people...
...Jose Saltiel, 56, was shaving in his two-story house in Las Lomas when "the ground started shaking and the bathroom appeared to be swirling." He grabbed his son and stood in a doorway. He later went to his office, but, he said, "I was scared. I thought a bomb had been dropped...
...message was monitored last week on a radio frequency normally used by pilots. It included a list of demands and a recording of what sounded like the voice of Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, the daughter of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in San Salvador on Sept. 10. "I'm fine, I'm fine, Papa," the woman said, explaining that she was a prisoner of the Pedro Pablo Castillo Command of the antigovernment Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...