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Each decade he would smash his own work, forgoing modernization, shaking up the bureaucracy, purging its leadership, resisting progress in order to maintain undefiled values that could be implemented, if at all, by a simple peasant society...
...Words), People magazine tells us where Jerzy Kosinski hangs out: dingy streets, sex clubs, hospital operating rooms, and polo fields. I thought once that Jerzy Kosinski had the most fantastic and bizarre imagination of any American writer. Lurid episodes splatter his pages, rapes of village nymphs by jealous peasant women with rake handles and broken bottles and remote-control murders on Swiss ski slopes. Yet if People can be trusted, Kosinski's tales are more life than art, drawing on a misguided, exotic youth...
...held, the Dalai Lama does not regard himself as a god. "I am a human being: a Buddhist monk," he says. But he is the reincarnation of his predecessor and became Dalai Lama in the traditional way. At the age of two, he was found in a peasant's hut in Taktser after a long search during which monks used divinations and sought miraculous signs to reveal his whereabouts. They confirmed their discovery of reincarnation by having the child identify objects associated with his predecessor. All that traditional procedure could disappear now, he says. The next leader...
...Rivas in the south, committees led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) began distributing food and providing medical care for the thousands wounded in the savage civil war against exiled Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle. In Managua the junta that heads the Government of National Reconstruction ordered peasants who had occupied plantations owned by wealthy farmers to move on. The junta instructed them to join the peasant-owned agricultural collectives that will soon be established on the more than 1 million acres, roughly two-thirds of the country's best farm land, that have been expropriated from Somoza...
...royal family in the final decade of the Russian empire. By prudish Soviet standards, Pikul's empurpled prose is downright lurid. In one key scene, for example, Rasputin sneaks up to the Tsarina as she prays for her hemophiliac son. Out of the shadows steps the "bony peasant, his face framed by long hair parted in the center and glistening with oil, his eyes emitting a kind of hypnotic sparkle." The Tsarina shakes "in a fit of nervous excitement" as they gaze at each other. The monk scoops her up and strokes her. She slips her arms around...