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...speak with an Italian accent. Since then, she has made four more movies, including the current Touch and Go and Extreme Prejudice, a Christmas release in which she has her first dramatic role, as a Mexican singer. Alonso, 29, does not worry about being stereotyped as a fiery Latina. With predictable confidence she says, "I can play the roles Meryl Streep plays." Wonder how her Polish and Danish accents are coming along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 8, 1986 | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...escape the oppression of Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of the day. When Fidel Castro overthrew Batista in 1959, Padilla returned home and put himself at the command of the new regime, which sent him to London and Moscow as a correspondent for Prensa Latina, the government press agency. Gradually he became disenchanted; he saw the future of his country in the repressive atmosphere of the East bloc. Poems such as this reflected his unhappy feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poet Heberto Padilla: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...succeed leftist Michael Manley, a Castro ally, as Prime Minister. Jamaica has now swung so strongly against Cuba that Seaga sent troops to assist in the invasion of Grenada and last week expelled the last semiofficial Cuban on the island, a correspondent for the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. Seaga charged that the correspondent had participated with four Soviet diplomats in a plot to assassinate a Jamaican Foreign Ministry official. The Soviets were also thrown out. Even Manley was less than vehement in opposing the invasion of Grenada. He expressed "profound sharing of concern about the brutality of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba on the Defensive | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...instance, we offer Cambridge Rindge and Latina a cut rate: $200 for the afternoon, and throw in some Crimson pennants at no extra charge. Surely that would go a long way toward hipline local residents forget about high rents in Harvard-owned housing and the possibility of genetic engineers pouring little green monster eggs down the drain and into the city's sewage system...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Sis-Boom-Bah | 9/29/1982 | See Source »

...differences with his bosses, decided to tell what he knew. He flew to Brussels for a day of conversation with EEC officials about Roche marketing practices, some of which he described as anticompetitive and aimed at fixing prices. A few months later, he left the company and moved to Latina, near Rome, where he started a pig farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Spying in Switzerland | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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