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...Bochco has retrenched. Civil Wars, his latest drama series, takes him back into comfortable L.A. Law territory. Mariel Hemingway and Peter Onorati (a survivor of Cop Rock) play New York City lawyers who team up to handle divorce work. The Bochco trademarks are all here: three or four story lines interwoven through the hour, a mix of social comment and sophomoric black humor, and a slick, upscale look. (Even the office secretary dresses like a Vogue model...
Juan's experience in the United States (apparently Arenas had similar feelings upon escaping his native Cuba on the Mariel boat lift in 1980) has given him nothing to which his soul can cling. Everything is on the surface and artificial, it's all candy and fake, pearly-white smiles. This kind of empty sensation is similar to the feeling sparked effectively in the reader by Arenas' sparse, transitionless writing...
...allowed to visit relatives in the U.S. The State Department knows it will be flooded with ; requests for tourist visas if the age limit is lifted. "The Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because we don't allow free travel," responds a Havana policymaker. "Now we are doing what they demand, and still we're bad guys...
...then an angry man joined the revelers. Julio Gonzalez, 36, one of Fidel Castro's cast-off gifts to the U.S. in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, came to plead with his estranged girlfriend, Lydia Feliciano, 45. She earned $150 a night checking coats and taking tickets ($5 each) at the club. Gonzalez had lived with Feliciano for eight apparently calm years. But in February he lost his job as a warehouseman. Then the two quarreled bitterly, reportedly over his fondness for her niece, and she ordered him to leave her apartment. Now living in a tiny room and hustling...
...economic misery and political persecution in that embattled Central American country, as many as 200 refugees a day are hitting town. By the end of this year, an estimated 100,000 more Nicaraguans will seek refuge in Miami. The city has not experienced such an overwhelming influx since the Mariel boatlift deposited 125,000 Cuban refugees...