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...Alberto reads popular magazines, complex novels and hometown news in whatever spare time he finds. "I like W," he declared. "You figure out what styles arecoming out." He recently finished Cronica de Una Muerta Anunciada (Chronicle of A Death Foretold), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "He's Columbian," Luis explained, "but heis lived in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. He told Fidel he was going to help, and he did. Fidel adores and admires him. He started a school of cinema there and has a house." Many stores in the area sell publications from El Salvador. "I keep up with the sports...

Author: By Tim Warren, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Working to Seguir: Luis Alberto | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

THREE YOUNG MEN, their faces painted with geometrical designs, were lying in the rubble of what was to be a life-size papier-mache cow, wailing loudly, "La vaca es muerta!," while two policemen attempted to pull them to their feet. People were spinning around ecstatically to a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff. A girl stops short: "I'm tripping," she says, her eyes dilated and staring at an image of a dragon overhead...

Author: By Susan L. Kelly, | Title: Milking Sacred Cows | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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