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With Ricardo and two others, Raul is arranging to buy a motorized boat to sail to Miami, where a brother recently landed on a raft. The youths have paid out half the 30,000-peso price, but have no idea how they'll get the rest. "I want to be free!" shouts Raul. "I want to go to a hotel for a vacation. I want to take a car and drive into the countryside. We are Negroes in our own country; we are slaves." His voice rises close to hysteria as waiters in the ; restaurant pretend not to hear...
Those who do not love Fidel have few options: wait until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find...
...Raul, 28, cadges meals from his mother when he is not selling goods a friend steals from a state factory. Although he speaks three languages, he cannot find work either, because his history of alcoholism is duly noted in his dossier...
...happens, Morticia and Gomez Addams (Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia) are also in need of a nanny as Addams Family Values opens, since they are expecting Pubert -- who is born mustachioed. It would have been salutary if Mrs. Doubtfire had been given the job, for it would have been a true test of her mettle. But the job goes to one Debbie Jellinsky (Joan Cusack), who sets about seducing Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) in what proves to be one of ^ the movie's less profitable conceits. Like the first of the Addams chronicles, this is an essentially lazy movie...
Argentine President Carlos Menem, at a rare meeting with his predecessor, Raul Alfonsin, leader of the opposition Civic Radical Union Party, won support for a constitutional measure lifting the ban on successive presidential terms. The deal canceled a scheduled referendum on the issue, which seemed likely to prove an embarrassing defeat for the Radicals. The reform must be ratified by the Civic Radical Union Party; it is then expected to breeze through the legislature. With a 40% approval rating, 10% ahead of any rival's, Menem is likely to make a bid for a second term...