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Gabriel Garcia Márquez spearheads Latin American writing...
Under frescoed portraits of Diderot and Voltaire, luminaries ranging from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez to Novelists Norman Mailer and William Styron and Actress Sophia Loren debated such topics as state control of the arts and the unemployment crisis. In between they supped at the Foreign Ministry and lunched with Mitterrand. So dazzling was the cast that even the stars sometimes seemed overwhelmed. Said Film Director Francis Ford Coppola: "The people here are incredible. It's like a college-a very good college." The meeting, Italian Theater Director Giorgio Strehler concluded grandly in his summation, had provoked...
...Nast officials insisted when announcing the revival: "You will not find a more handsome, readable magazine in America." That boast prompted high, perhaps unreachable, expectations. The first issue is certainly lavish (290 glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball...
...threatened on the other by disgruntled right-wingers anxious to return to the dictatorial days of Francisco Franco. Only three days before the Pope's white Alitalia 727 touched down at Madrid's Barajas Airport, Spanish voters had given Socialist Felipe González Márquez, 40, a landslide victory in national elections. Arriving during a tense period of political transition, the Pope told King Juan Carlos, González and the nation's military leaders, "I would like to greet and pay my respects to the legitimate representatives of the Spanish people...
Last Thursday in Mexico City, where García Márquez resides in an elite suburb with his wife Mercedes, a flustered maid served coffee while the shy, stout author made plans to accept his award in Stockholm. He intends to wear the traditional Mexican guayabera, a lightweight shirt worn outside the trousers. Said he: "To avoid putting on a tuxedo, I'll stand the cold." The creator of fictional ice, amnesia and ascending bedsheets could hardly do otherwise...