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...probably represents his third comeback, and at 67 he is wise enough to know that a fourth or fifth may lie ahead. "Talk to me after my next movie," he says, half-assuming that this latest up means, in short order, the inevitable down. He smiles and gives a que sera shrug...
When the Swedish Academy last week announced its choice for the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, the reaction across the globe might be summarized as Que Cela, Cela? Was the award to Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela, 73, another example of the Academy's penchant for giving unheard-of writers undreamt-of recognition? Yes, in the sense that Cela has not had much impact outside his native land for a quarter-century. But on reflection, the better answer is no, for Cela, though now little read, has amassed a body of powerful, disturbing work -- and lived a risky, iconoclastic life...
Latin music--qu'est-ce que c'est? That was the question on the minds of 300 people yesterday as they listened to musician David Byrne explain his recent foray into Afro-Brazilian rhythm...
...that reflect on the impossibility of dreams and humanity: "And they were imagining Roses/As if life itself were a dream/Is a gift not a reason for living?/Not enough, not enough, so it seems." The chorus then switches to Spanish with the refrain: "Brinde a la Rosa/Y al hombre que no vive/Perdido en un sueno/en un atmosfera imposible," reflecting again the hopelessness of illusion...
...sabes what it's like to have a child at 15 and then, 12 years later, despues de todo lo que has hecho, have her drop out? Her Big Sister didn't do nothing--do you know her, Evelyn or something? Gracias a Dios Nana got bored and went back, but she flunked...So Maritza, you better do what your Big Sister tells you, you hear...