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Author Guzmán, a prominent Mexican historian who knew Villa well, has long been his foremost defender. In this book, he has converted piles of official documents, letters and unpublished notes into the "memoirs" that he claims Villa would have written if Villa had not been illiterate. Reconstructing the...
THE TRAIN. Excitement piles up, quite literally, in Director John Frankenheimer's World War II drama about a trainload of stolen French art, racing toward the German border with Hero Burt Lancaster hot on its wheels.
So what does she do? Does she ugly up her voice, play the sex queen, scatter knowing winks? Not a bit of it. She just stands there and sings--throwing in a few minute gestures. And as the song gets grizzlier she sings softer and softer, until she's almost...
The most conservative idea for reform is that of Europe's most influential central banker, Bundesbank President Karl Blessing, who is less interested in expanding the supply of reserves than in heading off inflation. He would keep the current monetary system largely intact but limit the amount of dollars...
Seeking the Scapegoat. It was. For as morning became afternoon, and afternoon became evening, there was no Kasavubu-and in fact no voting. Throughout the city, not a single polling place opened its doors. At some there were no ballot boxes, at others no pencils. Almost none had received the...