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...mind the click of popping beer cans a chorus of crying babies and Ice cream vendors accompanying your favorite symphony, you might enjoy a trip this weekend to the outdoor Hatch Shell to hear "Papa "Arthur Fiedler and his Boston Pops serenade you under the stars...
...world's most uncaring and corrupt bureaucracies. The Duvalier family alone skims at least $6 million a year from the government's revenues-about one-fifth of the country's entire budget-while Jean-Claude recently inaugurated a huge $3 million mausoleum honoring Papa Doc. "We live only in fantasies; reality eludes us," Publisher Dieudonne Fardin recently complained in Haiti's bimonthly Le Petit Samedi Soir. "One comes to the realization that there is an absence of national will to search for solutions to the problems which affect the future of the country." Fardin is probably...
...shadowy Indian existence is thrown against the brilliant screen of another reality that hovers, shimmers and then vanishes the way it came. Claremon is a bit of a necromancer himself, easily summoning up the spirits of B. Traven, Garcia Lorca and-unhappily -Ernest Hemingway. It is in echoing Papa's Spanish style that the novelist makes his largest error. For to use "for" on almost every page is to bring a monotony to a highly charged work. For an author does not render Mexican into English that way. An occasional omission or a "because" works wonders. Because unlike...
...also been accused of being involved in plots to kill South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that same year, Congo Nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1961 and Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961. Last week TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who has spent four years researching a book on Trujillo's assassination, reported that the CIA actually was involved in three plots to kill the dictator. In 1958 the agency promised to provide a group of dissident Dominicans with a sharpshooter and rifle if they could induce...
...crux of the plot, Papa Peppino (Eli Wallach) is seething with suppressed virility because Mama Rosa (Sada Thompson) has denied him the full use of the matrimonial bed for some four months. Furthermore, she does not wave to him from the balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them...