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...film's melancholy message. Thirty-six hours later, Luis and Junior are brought ashore, sunstruck and dehydrated. On their hospital cots, the "orphans" are indeed hailed as heroes and plied with gifts. The trouble is, they would trade all the bikes and toys, all the chances for plush adoption, for life with Popi. As officials tumble to the truth and scandal hovers overhead, a HEW functionary asks, "How can we deprive the world of a happy ending to this fairy tale?" To the film's credit, it chooses deprivation...
...called--had grown to maybe a thousand people. It was tremendous. There was a second line stretching for three blocks behind the band. It was just like the Mardi Gras. Above the head of the people, brightly decorated umbrellas began to appear. Some were very elaborate, with fine, plush layers of feathers on them. One had a big black doll dressed up like a carnival queen fastened to the top. Tassles, fringe, sequins. Green, bright yellow, and lavender were the dominant colors. One umbrella was deep red with black and yellow trimming, like a great flaming torch. It had "Soul...
Seven men, four of them carrying submachine guns, steal $220,000 from the Casino San Rafael in the plush seaside resort of Punta del Este - the biggest robbery 'in Uruguayan history. Several days later, after the thieves discover that some of the haul belongs to a pool for casino employees' tips, they graciously offer to return that amount. At about that time, four men break into the Financiera Monty, a Montevideo finance company that deals in currency exchange and real estate. Although the men make off with thousands of dollars and six account books, the company does...
...THAT THE Revolution has resolved itself into scheduled meetings, you can stop carrying around bag lunches and try out something new. The Yard of Ale has given its site over to ZumZum and the University Restaurant has been remodeled, combining its Greek-oriented cuisine with a plush and pretentious Toga Lounge for cocktails...
...window." Change was the shallowest of facades, mostly visible as ruin. A "cardboard democracy" allowed Communists and Christian Democrats to succeed one another monotonously in the mayor's office. But the real power still rested with the bishop in his diocesan quarters-marble floors, red plush draperies, gold-framed loveseats-and with those few petty officials, from policeman to tax collector, anciently privileged to corruption...