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Reyes' "designated teller," an impartial observer of the ballot counting to which each candidate is entitled according to last spring's constitution, was his roommate, Robert R. Zamacona...
Zamacona, who is Reyes' roommate, had been appointed "vote-teller" for the election...
...kept listening. Faith and persistence may not cash out in Webb's best songs -- he is better writing about dreams lost and remembered than dreams come true -- but real life, for once, is a little more favorably inclined. Suspending Disbelief is an important record of an important American tale teller, our best raveler of the blind spots of the heart...
...peaks contrasted with juvenilia. Thus no one is served, neither writer nor audience, by reviving Peter Shaffer's one-acts about sex, greed and self-deceit. White Liars, the opener, has been rewritten but remains derivative sentimentality about an old East European immigrant barely getting by as a fortune teller on the holiday coast of England. Black Comedy relies on the gimmick of pretending that lights are out when they are on, so people stumble about in unintended sexual tangles while the audience chortles from the superiority of being able to see. It's possible to beguile audiences while amusing...
...young woman in a gold BMW was dragged to her death trying to save her baby daughter when thieves drove off in her car. Los Angeles mourned Sherri Foreman, 29, a pregnant beautician who was stabbed by a carjacker when she stopped her 1984 BMW at an automated-teller machine. By the time the ambulance reached the hospital, the 12-week-old fetus was dead. A day later, so was the mother...