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...course catalogue, the Coffee Connection is for the serious connoisseur who knows what he she wants. If you're stymied, try the Brazilian and branch, out from there. The cheese platters and desserts are not bad: the atmosphere's less languid than some true schmoozers would wish. Cafe Pamplona (12 Bow St.): One of the Square's chic spots, packed in the winter, Pamplona is the place to be seen, whether you're reading your favorite Russian or Sanskrit tomes; or just making the scene with a friend or teaching fellow. It's also the traditional place to break...
...cast--and dialogue--are international enough to put Cafe Pamplona to shame. Oleg Yankovsky plays a Russian poet named Gortchakov, who is in Italy to write a book about a 17th-century composer, Gortchakov is accompanied by an interpreter, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano). Like Fellini, another comsummate stylist, Tarkovsky seems to have chosen his cast primarily for their visual qualities--particularly Giordano, who has the Surrealist-Madonna looks to complement the Surrealist-pastoral scenery forming the backbone of this film...
...bulls came all at once when Maass ran with the young men of Pamplona through deserted city streets chased by a dozen half-ton animals in the annual "running of the bulls." The custom precedes a bullfight in the town's central arena and is a historic test of bravado...
...Harvard. But she gained a new appreciation for the United States. She met Irish Catholics trying to subsist on the tired soil west of the Shannon River. She slipped a Newsweek to an information hungry Romanian school teacher. A man poured a bucket of Sangria over her head in Pamplona. It was time to come home...
...person of extremes (that's a good B-School type weakness)". The notion shows up again and again in his evaluation of himself. It shows up in his high visibility and gregariousness, contrasted with the way he values "quiet times, small groups of people, intimate conversations," and the Cafe Pamplona. He admits the need for "moderating influences," of which his mother, and longtime roommate Mauro Keller Sarmiento are the most prominent. He is a person who has the confidence and courage to take untold business risks, but is somewhat leery of being by himself. He will room with Crane next...