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There is no doubt that this is compelling film making. Many thoughtfully composed and nicely lit shots suggest a strong collaboration between director and cinematographer, Manuel Teran. The contrast between the beauty and violence of Macedonia is made palpable by Teran's shots of mountainous terrain and brutal shootings. The quick and sometimes disorienting pace of the film captures the overriding sense of confusion and frustration in Macedonia...
...first glance, "Strawberry and Chocolate" seems like a Cuban version of the Manuel Puig/Hector Babenco "Kiss of the Spider Woman." There is the flamboyant gay man, the uptight, straight Marxist and lots of political oppression. Straw-berry and Chocolate" also contains the maudlin elements of what in hack reviewer parlance is called a "feel-good movie." However, it is the critique of Cuban society as it stands and the glimpse into a decaying Havana which make Gutierrez Alea's film so pointed and topical. "Strawberry and Chocolate" makes a plea for tolerance, a virtue not much in evidence in Castro...
...turned up in an address book seized during a cocaine raid. ``Fujimori is a politician in the middle of a campaign,'' says Carol Graham, a visiting fellow at the World Bank. ``Nationalism is a nerve that politicians in need of some kind of boost can touch.'' Says former diplomat Manuel Vacula: ``Who does this benefit? Fujimori and the narco-army. Who can say now that the military is a major drug trafficker? It would be treason...
...Secret. It has good groups of pictures by Clyfford Still and Philip Guston, but strangely enough it is relatively weak where it should be rock solid-in San Francisco art. Most of the top Bay Area names are represented-Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Manuel Neri, William Wiley and so on-but not always with works of the first quality. The uninitiated visitor would hardly guess how strong a creative center San Francisco has been over the past half-century, or how much of its value lies in its distinctive character...
...would like briefly to respond to an editorial by Undergraduate Council member Manuel F. Cachan (Opinion, Dec. 20, 1994) regarding housing randomization. Cachan alleged that certain comments which I made at a Student Affairs Committee meeting last month were "insensitive" and "nearly racist...