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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the time warp of translation, it took three years for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Cien Anos de Soledad to reach and astound the English- speaking world as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). That rousing chronicle of a mythical South American town and a family doomed to heroism and folly established its author's international reputation. Among the book's magical properties was the power to transform a once obscure Colombian journalist into the recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. Garcia Marquez, of course, published other works along the way to Stockholm, including three novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Half-Century of Solitude LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Indeed it was. As the guns sounded overseas, gallus-snapping Congressmen and dollar-a-year New Dealers, bullnecked racists and high-toned society hostesses, secretaries and alphabet-soup bureaucrats from the OPA, BEW, CAS and OEM all began to audition for their roles in history. The little Southern town abruptly became an arena of contradictions, and Brinkley surveys them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historic Roles WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Wappingers Falls is so ordinary that it could serve as a set for the old television show Twilight Zone. Eighty miles up the Hudson River from New York City, the Dutchess County town has an unassuming 1950s air. A highway strip of car dealerships and fast-food joints leads into a village centered on a grassy park with a bandstand. A sign on Main Street announces Saturday-night bingo at St. Mary's Church. The biggest employer is IBM. The second biggest is New York State, which maintains a scattering of prisons and hospitals in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hullabaloo on The Hudson | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Working from John Nichols' 1974 novel, he has fashioned the imaginary town of Milagro (Spanish for miracle) into a Disneyland with dirt. See the picturesque shacks, the decent people with their ready aphorisms, the general store that sells everything from bullets to Paul Newman's salad dressing. On this sere turf, Hispanics have lived and farmed, have scratched out survival for centuries. And they don't need the white folks' help, muchas gracias. As the town's mayor tells a visiting sociologist (Daniel Stern), "If we don't know it already, chances are we aren't interested in learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Magic in New Mexico THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...keeps tamping down the hot tempers of the villagers and the Anglos. And Amarante (Carlos Riquelme) fights the scourge with flaming arrows, fish heads and ancient curses. He even fires his pistol at an intruder and drives the developers' bulldozer over a cliff -- though no one in this gossipy town takes any notice of it. Is this old man loco? No, he is on the side of the angels. One angel, anyway: a venerable sprite (Robert Carricart) who plays the concertina, quotes Shakespeare and orchestrates the war like a seraphic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Magic in New Mexico THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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