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...NIÑA HUANCA...
Faustino Gonzalez-Aller is a Spaniard, a journalist and screenwriter who has returned to his native 4and after years of living and working in Central America and New York City. Like so many of today's serious novels, his Niña Huanca seems to have been shaped by the experiences of migration and cultural isolation. Modern Hispanic novelists have had the good fortune to share many of the same themes with their 19th century Russian counterparts-problems of underdevelopment, social and political injustice, gaping class divisions and a religious sense of the land and peasantry. Ni...
...handful of guests for the past several weeks, its chef hewed to his cordon bleu standards to the last. In the restaurant, thoughtfully shifted back into the most protected area of the hotel because of snipers, service and cuisine merited the usual three stars. Scampi, saumon fumé, salade Niçoise-almost the full menu was available. On Monday U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley was at one table, Christian Moderate Leader Ramond Edde near by at another. Shortly after 3, as Edde was finishing his coffee, an aide arrived to tell him the hotel had been taken over...
Baryshnikov (pronounced Ba-rish-ni-koff) is a one-man theatrical event that nearly defies summary. He is an unbelievable technician with invisible technique. Most dancers, even the great ones, make obvious preliminaries to leaps. He simply floats into confounding feats of acrobatics and then comes to still, collected repose. He forces the eye into a double take: did that man actually do that just now? Dance Critic Walter Terry says that "Baryshnikov is probably the most dazzling virtuoso we have seen. He is more spectacular in sheer technique than any other male dancer. What he actually does...
...more extreme example comes from the village of La Guardia, 20 miles east of Toledo, which every year celebrates a ten-day festival honoring the Niňo (boy) of La Guardia. The festival grew out of a charge that in 1488. local Jews had murdered an unnamed boy. who, says Sister Despina, also never existed. A trial ordered by Grand Inquisitor Torquemada resulted in the execution of some ten to 20 Jews. It was also part of the anti-Semitic campaign that led to the 1492 expulsion of all Jews from...