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Dressed in her best housedress, Celia del Pino, a 63-year-old revolutionary, ) sits in a wicker swing "guarding the north coast of Cuba." She wears the drop pearl earrings left by her departed Spanish lover and dreams of being honored by Fidel Castro -- "El Lider himself" -- on a red velvet divan. Instead, before dawn, she sights her dead husband, iridescent blue and "taller than the palms, walking on water in his white summer suit and Panama...
...ambitious. Not only does she reunite Pilar with her grandmother; she also claims her own aesthetic identity. Like a priestess, in passages of beautiful island incantation, she conjures her Cuban heritage from a land between "death and oblivion," so that she too can fasten on Abuela Celia's drop pearl earrings, sit in a wicker swing by the sea, and watch as the radiant spirits of her forefathers "stretch out a colossal hand...
...They belong to the handful of ordinary people who not only saw the horror around them but also risked their lives out of compassion for its victims: those under Nazi rule who dared to hide Jews in their houses and apartments and on their farms. According to Samuel and Pearl Oliner, researchers from Humboldt State University in California who conducted an eight-year study of altruism, these protectors may have saved 500,000 lives...
BIZET: THE PEARL FISHERS. Carmen it isn't, but an endearing minor opera, with a crazy plot and a thrilling tenor-baritone duet. It gets a rare production from the Opera Company of Philadelphia, starring award-winning tenor Martin Thompson. March...
Some Japanese believe the anti-Japanese sentiment in America is essentially racist. Kusomoto raises the question: "Most American people don't like to admit it, but racial issues have some very deep roots," he says. "Americans are seeing our successes here as Pearl Harbor II. Only this time...