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...Drama Contemporary volume includes short plays by leading architects of the New Realism: Manuel Puig, Antonio Skarmeta, Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as Fuentes, who will resume teaching here as a visiting professor next year. The startling newness of the plays does not emanate from tinsel and glitter but from evocative use of the past. The writers use the symbols of the past to understand the present and as sign posts to a hopeful future...
...been born in Indianapolis, possibly he would have raced the brightest automobiles. People say he has a genius for sailing, but it may be that he has just applied his genius to sailing and is literally driving himself. "At a certain level, does it make much difference?" Conner asks. "Mario Andretti or A.J. Foyt? Or is it the car?" One of the shapeless peaked caps he rotates in endless supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch...
...chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Kennedy is expected to push for an increase in the minimum wage during this Congress. In the House, New York Democrat Mario Biaggi has submitted a bill to raise the current rate to $5.05 an hour over a five-year period and index it after 1991 to half of average hourly earnings. The present minimum is less than 38% of average...
...over what to do with their potential embarrassment of riches. A few have taken action. In Ohio, Democratic Governor Richard Celeste has signed laws that will reduce the average state taxpayer's income taxes by 7% this year and an additional 1% in 1988. In New York, Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo promised as far back as last spring to return any windfall money to taxpayers. At a special session of the state legislature in December, he offered to cut the state capital gains rate from 13% to 9%. Following the Reagan Administration's lead, Cuomo also proposed to eliminate state...
...Mario Vargas Llosa's autobiographical novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter amorously paired a young man with an older woman. In The Perpetual Orgy, a highly original work of nonfiction, part literary testament and part critical study of Madame Bovary, the author confesses to carrying a torch for the novel's heroine, soon to be 130. Peru's Vargas Llosa belongs to a long line of Emma Bovary's professional admirers. Gustave Flaubert's scandalous character has vamped the imaginations and intellects of writers from Baudelaire to Woody Allen, whose l971 short story The Kugelmass Episode conjures a contemporary character...