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...solaces of contemporary life, such as love and religion, while a bouncy chorus invokes "God and man" as if they were the co-owners of the corner candy store. Let's Dance, a love song rilled with the promise of passion and the threat of impermanence under "this serious moonlight," has one of those weird, hypnotic choruses that uses the colors and objects of dreams like surrealistic talismans: "Let's dance/ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues...
...justice to America's considerable contribution to the art of insult. One of the best flamethrowers in our early House of Representatives was the brilliant Virginia Congressman John Randolph. He once described a political foe as "a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...
Fuentes's work has also been heavily influenced by motion pictures. A movie trivia expert and a close friend of the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, his most recent play. Orchids in the Moonlight, tells the story of two aging Mexican movie actresses as they struggle to come to terms with their fading stardom...
...most critically acclaimed works have been "The Death of Artemio Cruz" in 1962, and "Terra Nostra" in 1975. Fuentes' most recent works are a 1980 novel, "Distant Relations," and a 1982 play. "Orchids in the Moonlight," which premiered at Harvard's Loeb Drama Center...
...wealthy passengers have each paid $15,000 for a 10-day cruise through the Mediterranean aboard the Narcissus. The luxurious ship provides both musical and gastronomical delights. A virtuoso pianist and a renowned diva perform nightly to passengers who dine on gourmet food and turn adulterous in the moonlight. Indeed, affair after affair develops among the passengers...