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Latin America has seldom been short of renowned poets, notably Peru's César Vallejo and Chile's Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, both of whom won Nobel Prizes. But in the 1960s, North America began to encounter the names of novelists and essayists who would be associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...
...elections with a genuine majority, it routinely manipulates the results to increase the margin of victory. The P.R.I.'s defenders respond that the system is "evolutionary," indirectly reflecting the will of the majority through an internal party consensus. Still, many Mexicans are deeply cynical about the process. Says Pablo Gómez, secretary-general of the United Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.), which won third place with 3.7% of the votes last July: "There are a million cracks in the P.R.I., and it is burning itself...
...film shot in his travels, Duncan has assembled a Pavlova of the highly photogenic landscapes and people of Islam. It is a warm and sympathetic vision of the family of man, Muslim branch. In the past, Duncan's versatile lens has memorably captured war, American presidential politics and Pablo Picasso. The gaze he directs at Islam is, as always, lucid and superbly dramatic...
Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda (a 1971 Nobel laureate) once honored his colleague's work as "the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes." The Swedish Academy echoed that judgment when it awarded Colombian Author Gabriel García Márquez, 54, the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature last week. "His novels and short stories," reads the citation, combine the fantastic and the realistic "in a richly composed world of the imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts...
...hard to find anything positive in a deadly plague, but immunologists, virologists and cancer experts agree that AIDS represents a remarkable experiment of nature. The new scourge, says New York Immunobiologist Pablo Rubinstein, "may teach us more about cancer and old, familiar diseases than we are able to fathom at this time...