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Jose Luis Villa, who slipped across the Mexican border last fall, has even worse prospects. He makes his home on a ragged mattress, one of about 30 lying in a row underneath the roaring traffic of Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway. Next to Villa's mattress stands a cardboard Perrier...
Jubilant and eclectic, yet a little ragged with the tatterdemalion feel of a county fair, Viet Nam's show of national pride captured perfectly, if unwittingly, the country's paradoxical fate: having prevailed over a superpower, Viet Nam has yet to come wholly to grips with itself. The nine aging...
It was like a scene out of Woody Allen's Bananas. A ragged band of soldiers played The Yellow Rose of Texas in 110 degrees heat as two helicopters, their blades whipping up dust in the clearing, touched down at the base camp in Honduras, three miles from the Nicaraguan...
Baby yuppies go on the road: the week's oddest cross-pollination of genres. In this teenpic travelogue, Gib (John Cusack) and Alison (Daphne Zuniga) are only college freshmen, and already they're lost in America. Gib, a quick, pleasant non-hunk, attends an Eastern school, but someone has lined...
Today, Caravaggio almost ranks with Rembrandt and Velasquez as the most popular of all 17th century artists. Mythmaking has something to do with this. We have a proto-Marxist Caravaggio, the painter of common people with dirty feet and ragged sleeves. There is also a homosexual Caravaggio, moved into the...