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...Family Secrets gives no indication that Prince has any talent as a writer or director. Here is the plot in a nutshell: Diane Casper (Daniela Raz), a 27-year-old photojournalist, visits her grandmother Theresa Stanski (Frances Maxime). While there, she finds rolls of old film in the attic, develops them and learns that years earlier her mother, Catherine Casper (Sheila McDonald), lied to Diane about her father...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Some Secrets Should Not be Told | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

...into the faces across from him. Only twice did he display spontaneous animation. At one point he picked up a bent paper clip, twirled it almost delicately in one large hand until all eyes were concentrating on it and then thumped the table strongly, saying, "Mir, mir, i yeshche raz mir" (peace, peace, and once again peace). Later, when Ray Cave said he hoped they would meet again at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Brezhnev raised both arms high and, like a man who looks forward to many more years of power and pleasure in life, replied with great delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Brezhnev | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...rank amateur, Donald V. Applegate of Cochabamba, caught a 17-pounder; the current record is held by Ricardo Roberts, manager of the newspaper La Razón, who boated a 32-pound rainbow.* Packing up to transfer to a new post in the Pentagon last week, Moores vowed: "I'll be back next year. If there's not a 40-pounder there now, there'll sure be by then, and that's the boy I'm after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...most ticklish task was to disarm his own partisans. Some 10,000 of them still had rifles, machine guns and ammunition, supplied during the fighting. Their guns kept La Razón, a tin-interest daily newspaper hated by M.N.R., from publishing. Paz refused to send guards to the plant. Above all, he did not want any more shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Exile's Return | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...first acts of the democratic government that came to power in Bolivia's "lamppost revolution" of 1946 was to declare an amnesty for members of Razón de Patria, the ultra-nationalist military lodge behind the assassinated Dictator Gualberto Villaroel. Since then, the government has had plenty of reason to regret its generosity. In three years, RADEPA officers and their civilian supporters in the fascist Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) have pulled more than a dozen revolutionary attempts. Last week they tried another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: War in the Andes | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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