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...investigation about the death of an American citizen, withholding information about those responsible and circumstances about that murder is not bad policy, it's a crime," said Torricelli in demanding a formal investigation. At issue are the deaths of innkeeper Michael Devine in 1990 and Efrain Bamaca Velasquez in 1992. Bamaca's American widow, Jennifer Harbury, staged a 32-day hunger strike in Guatemala City last fall and began a fast in front of the White House 12 days...
Harvard Law School graduate Jennifer K. Harbury broke off her 31-day hunger strike last Friday after the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City acknowledged that her husband, guerrilla leader Enfrain "Everado" Velasquez, was captured alive in 1992 by the Guatemalan military...
PAINTINGS IN THE HERMITAGE by Colin Eisler (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $85). Catherine the Great started it. She acquired important paintings, and her collection became the nucleus of the Leningrad museum. Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso: no visitor has seen all that is pictured here; the book itself amounts to a work...
Pachter's acknowledgement of race politics in the theater--where we go to see not only drama, but a dramatic re-enactment of life--does not connote racism. And Pachter is not alone among reviewers in his concerns about the responsibilities and repercussions of cross-casting. Liza M. Velasquez asserts in her review of The Royal Hunt of the Sun ("Royal Hunt Misses the Mark," Oct. 26) that the casting decisions made in the Mainstage production were "disappointing." She writes that director Jeremy Blumenthal cross-cast a number of women in the roles of "sympathetic yet incomprehensible male Incas...
Neither Pachter nor Velasquez dismisses the ideal of cross-casting. Each is mindful of the responsibilities of that political gesture. Cross-casting is an ideal precisely because our society is not, and audience members are mindful of race and sex, especially when it goes against the proscriptions of a playwright. We have to be careful about the messages we let them take from the theater. We do not advance feminism if we cast women in subservient roles written for men, or egalitarianism if we cast Black actors in subservient roles written for whites. Those roles have already been scripted...