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...elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted that he had some magnificent destiny before him. He shared the magic of those medieval heroes who could not die until they came to the end of their long story, until they had achieved their great victories...
...paneled Prime Minister's office. His first official act was to assure his fellow citizens, via nationwide radio and television, that he would honor his mother's democratic, nonaligned policies. Rajiv then confidently called parliamentary elections for Dec. 24. One opposition candidate: Maneka Gandhi, 28, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay. The elections will be held in all states but Assam, where disputes over the voting rights of recent immigrants have erupted, and Punjab, which has been the scene of civil unrest...
...succession was by no means over. Into the political arena stepped Sanjay's rebellious Sikh widow Maneka, a onetime model who had won Sanjay's hand when she was only 18. Maneka's strongest political credentials seemed to consist of her illustrious name and her acquired lineage...
...prominent opponents to Marcos can command the broad-based political support Aquino might have had, their ranks include such unlikely bedfellows as Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, and Jaime Ongpin, president of the Benguet mining corporation. Also included are Corazon Aquino, Ninoy's widow, and Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, his younger brother. The opposition draws experience from such veteran Marcos foes as Salvador Laurel, head of the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization coalition, and Lorenzo Tañada, 86, the grand old man of the opposition...
Moreover, because the director seems to have reserved the actors' energy for the latter half of the play, many of the early performances are restrained. With the exception of one mildly emotive scene between Fifty and a widow burying her child, and one comic interlude between two age-obsessed gossips, the early scenes fail to win the audience's sympathy...