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Fuentes also displays his long-recognized penchant for experimental writing. The Campaign is an extraordinarily complex book, which operates on a number of narrative levels and employs a variety of expository styles. Varela's description of the Citizens' obsession with clocks is typical of Fuentes's beautiful prose, which transmutes...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Fuentes Both Erudite and Entertaining | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

"Originally, I was going to do it in World War I. I was making more of a statement about war, but it became a polemic, too historically based. This is broader, sweeping, [it touches on] Western tradition as a whole. It's the movies. It's Hollywood. It's about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminism and Comedy | 10/25/1991 | See Source »

Twelfth Night The most imaginative response to the debate over the National Endowment for the Arts was this La Jolla (Calif.) Playhouse staging, which cunningly conceived the priggish functionary Malvolio as a precursor of Senator Jesse Helms. Far from merely polemic, the production was visually the most ravishing at any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Theater | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

The debate was torrid, the issue momentous. But even in the midst of last week's parliamentary debate over the country's economic destiny, many Soviet lawmakers could not tear their eyes from the newspapers in their laps. Here was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the exiled dissident, writing a polemic about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tolling The Death Knell: Solzhenitsyn urges the swift breakup of the union | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

In her portrayal this ennobled idea of womanhood and woman-strength, Malpede is effective. But the script is not without its problems. As much as the text glorifies the feminine it is a polemic against the masculine. The male characters are an array of negative masculinity stereotypes.

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: Mythic Feminism | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

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