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...like to read, and watching the news just upsets him," says an insider. When the crowd is gone and his phone stops ringing, he lapses into long periods of silence. So why bother suffering through this? Why not just leave? Why not do a Fujimori or pull a Peron and head for a friendly country? "I'd rather face all the charges than leave the country," he says. "If I was guilty of what they accuse me, I would have run away...
...world is full of fools. Fuller, perhaps, than it really is. But he has been known to hit targets that few others would touch at the time: witness, for instance, his scarifying treatment of the ugly pretensions of English "black power" in the 1960s, in The Return of Eva Peron, with the Killings in Trinidad, 1980, a piece of reportage that says what good liberal opinion considered unsayable about the posturing and murderous Michael...
...made that hold true across the whole spectrum of art activity in South America. How could there be? The histories of the countries that constitute it are so totally different, especially in the 20th century. What could a country like Argentina, long ruled by a semi-fascist dictator like Peron, intensely conservative in its cultural orientation, have in common with a long-running, more or less liberal democracy like Venezuela's? In the real world there is no unified entity called South America. What this show presents is not some fiction of a general cultural ethos but rather the work...
...Winston Churchill b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Juan Peron d) Kemal Ataturk...
...NGUYEN GIAP INDIRA GANDHI THEODORE ROOSEVELT SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE MARGARET THATCHER IDI AMIN DADA FIDEL CASTRO LECH WALESA EVA PERON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HO CHI MINH CHE GUEVARA F.W. DE KLERK NELSON MANDELA V.I. LENIN BENAZIR BHUTTO KEMAL ATATURK GOLDA MEIR DAVID BEN-GURION MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK POL POT ADOLF HITLER...