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Hipster-Nihilist. The device that Fuentes uses to launch the novel is as old as Chaucer: a group on a pilgrimage-in this case, figurative rather than literal. It is Holy Week, and packed into a Volkswagen en route from Mexico City to Veracruz are Franz, a Sudeten German who once worked as an architect in a Nazi concentration camp; Isabel, his thrill-a-minute cutie; Javier, a middle-aged dud poet; and Elizabeth, his love-starved (as distinguished from sex-starved) wife. Though each is in search of an intensely personal salvation, each represents a familiar 20th century type...
...firm when considering further expansion in Mexico. Celanese Corp. of America has used Bufete for 26 jobs, Diamond Alkali for seven, Du Pont for 14, and General Motors for two. Among Bufete's present projects: a $20 million pulp and paper plant for Kimberly-Clark in Veracruz and a $30 million Kodak filmmaking plant at Guadalajara...
...world have been concerned about how performance may be affected by the 7,434-ft. altitude. Sportsmen in low-lying Britain and Belgium, with no facilities at hand for high-altitude training, have gone so far as to suggest moving the Olympic endurance events to sea level-say, steaming Veracruz. An eminent American physiologist has proposed that the U.S. establish a base camp, Everest style, on the Mexican coast, and fly athletes to Mexico City on split-second timing to compete during the first hour after their arrival, before the altitude has time to erode their performance...
SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy popular melodrama by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory concerns a German vessel bound from Veracruz to Bremerhaven during the early 1930s. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they have to spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner provide fast company for the long haul...
Ship of Fools. In her mordant 1962 bestseller, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter unsparingly scrutinized what she described as "the ship of this world on its voyage to eternity." Her passengers were pimps, bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...