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...used the trappings of public life in Buenos Aires in the mid-'50s to examine the phenomenon of suffering, a subject immune to passing time or fashions. Argentine life provides surface chaos. An attempt to overthrow Perón brings bombs raining down on a city plaza; Peronists retaliate by sacking and burning Roman Catholic churches. Beneath all this noise, the novel circles slowly around an internal mystery, announced at the outset: a woman named Alejandra murders a man named Fernando and then sets the scene of the crime on fire, immolating herself. The event draws attention because...
...reason for the artistic explosion may be the recently opened stage between Out of Town News and Mug 'n' Muffin restaurant. Created by the new MBTA stop, the tiny macadam plaza gives performers another place to ply their trade in addition to the Brattle Square Island. Kalomymus, a bearded young man who presents his own version of the flaming batons routine, says another reason he and his cohorts have had more success recently is that the Cambridge police have refrained from breaking up larger audiences. "One cop did tell me the other night that he'd stick the torches...
...deployed a team of photographers in London. They came back with some of the stunning photographs in this week's report on "The Wedding of the Century." Julian Calder shot the wedding ceremony from the 100-ft.-high whispering gallery inside St. Paul's Cathedral. Across the plaza Terry Spencer crouched in a fourth-floor window and photographed the royal procession. Nearby, Dirck Halstead snapped the passing parade, then joined other photographers in a champagne toast for the bride and bridegroom. After taking pictures of the fireworks display in Hyde Park on the eve of the wedding, Neil...
Every Thursday afternoon the ritual of protest is repeated in front of Argentina's presidential Pink House in central Buenos Aires. A small group of women gather in the Plaza de Mayo under the watchful eyes of blue-uniformed police. There, for 30 minutes or so, the women walk in a large circle. There is no sound but their footsteps. Occasionally, the women may try to present a petition at the government building; almost always they are rebuffed. Then they disperse, returning to take up their vigil the following week...
...Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" (or "Mad Mothers," as they are called by some cynical Argentines) are engaged in a mute contest of wills. Their aim: to discover the whereabouts of their kin, among the 6,000 to 24,000 Argentines who disappeared during the fierce war against terrorism waged by the military after it took power from the country's hapless Perónist government in March...