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...Visit. State Department officials are also concerned about a curiously hostile Chinese tone toward the U.S. in recent weeks. Last month Peking, in a gesture of support for Puerto Rico's independence movement, refused to let the mayor of San Juan join 13 other U.S. mayors in a tour of Chinese cities. The mayors canceled the entire visit as a result, but Washington got the message: If the U.S. does not withdraw its support for China's island-Taiwan -China will not recognize U.S. sovereignty over Puerto Rico...
Italy's answer to Cary Grant was enjoying the role of tour guide as he strolled through Manhattan last week with a long-haired beauty on his arm. The young lady taking in the sights with Marcello Mastroianni, 51, simply had to be a movie star, with those smoldering dark eyes-but no. "One actor in the family is enough," said Barbara Mastroianni, 23, the actor's daughter by his wife, Flora Carabella. Barbara, a costume designer in Rome, accompanied her father to the U.S. to promote his new film, Down the Ancient Stairs. Despite the obvious affection...
...lost over the past few years. Things had settled down in the '70s: with a few exceptions, like Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt, there was an excess of showmanship, too much din substituting for true power, repetition-as in this past summer's Rolling Stones tour-for lack of any new directions. Springsteen has taken rock forward by taking it back, keeping it young. He uses and embellishes the myths of the '50s pop culture: his songs are populated by bad-ass loners, wiped-out heroes, bikers, hot-rodders, women of soulful mystery. Springsteen conjures...
...they are not enough. Now 45 and quoting the beginning of Dante's Divine Comedy ("Midway upon the journey of our life,/ I found that I was in a dusky wood"), Goodman takes the reader on a well-packaged tour just the other side of that wall we call common sense...
...tour, there are obligatory stops: Esalen, ESP and the elusive Carlos Castaneda, whom Goodman traps briefly in a stair well. "I'm Carlos' double," the gentleman insists before scooting off. Indeed, many people are not what they seem to be. Swami Hal, for example, is a 260-lb. mystic who runs a kind of Boys' Town ashram in the Northwest wilderness and talks like a dead...