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...always to help the downtrodden; as a teenager she donated time to a soup kitchen. In 1989 she dropped out of M.I.T. and went to work with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a leftist group that opposed U.S. military aid to the right-wing Salvadoran government. She worked for cispes in New York City and Washington before pulling up stakes in 1991 and moving to Central America, where she spent time in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. During occasional visits home to the U.S., she told friends she worked for human-rights organizations...
...trial for murdering his wife in an unusually gruesome fashion--was the underlying portrait it painted of a particular time and place. Here was precisely the kind of teeming social canvas that the likes of Dickens, Thackeray, Balzac, Eliot and Flaubert used to such great effect. We met earthy Salvadoran maids, beadle-like cops, bumbling civil servants, stalwart limo drivers, beaten-down screenwriters manquas and, of course, comically obsequious houseguests. Occupying the top of the social pecking order in this modern-day Middlemarch was the defendant himself, living a life that would be the envy of any 19th century...
...white heterosexual male. If, as in this case, he is also a Los Angeles policeman who is unwilling to confront his repressed homosexuality, so much the better. And if his moral weakness can be contrasted with a succession of noble people of color, including a madonna-like illegal Salvadoran immigrant, a lusty black preacher, a "reformed" gang leader and a prejudice-battling Vietnamese Legal Aid attorney, then you have a show that is p.c. to a fault...
...Sermon on Romance is a foot-stomping gospel shout. Your Honor My Client He's a Young Black Man, sung by the Vietnamese lawyer (the dynamic Welly Yang), has an almost rap-like ferocity that contrasts poignantly with a touching number like Consuelo's Dream, sung by the Salvadoran immigrant (Sophia Salguero). Adams has long shown a fondness for pop music (Nixon had a fox-trot), and here his fascination with the wellsprings of American musical expression has resulted in a series of strikingly hummable melodies. Says the composer: "I never realized how hard it is to write a good...
...Kiss of the Spider Woman,"died today in a Long Island hospital -- a week after suffering a stroke. Julia's career began with Shakespeare and included turns on Broadway (the 1982 musical "Nine") and 18 film roles. Among them: the suave Gomez in two "Addams Family" movies, and assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero...