Word: marios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CONVERSATION IN THE CATHEDRAL by MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Translated by GREGORY RABASSA 601 pages. Harper...
Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...
...looks from the lists as though they screen Eastern European and some radical films (a biography of Mao Tap-Tung by David Wolper ended yesterday), and their principle--especially for the children's movies--is "non-violent and non-sexist." During next week's Washington's Birthday school vacation, Mario Thomas's Emmy award-winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily for $.50. On the regular program beginning tonight is Bunuel's Simon of the Desert, among other things, a film from the director's Mexican period about a Christian mystic who moves...
...recent probes made headlines when Andrew Stein, a state assemblyman whose commission on living costs has been studying the nursing-home industry, charged widespread padding of Medicare and Medicaid bills submitted from a number of homes, including Bergman's. According to New York's secretary of state Mario Cuomo, Bergman's homes not only mistreated their patients but defrauded the state of Medicaid funds by submitting false and inflated bills. Stein also charged that Bergman's powerfully placed friends in the state legislature had impeded earlier investigations...
Directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Screenplay by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA and MARIO PUZO...