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...perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart." Meanwhile, similes and metaphors are platitudes or worse: the city draws a horse to it "like a magnet"; Peter is "wound up like a spring"; another character is "putty in the hands" of a widow; New York looks "like a piece of flashing jewelry...
...determined that interacting with leftists could be dangerous to the American public's health." The preceding sentence seems to have been indelibly stamped on the orders of those who issue visas to enter the United States. Last year, for example, Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the widow of Salvador Allende--both prominent left-wing activists--were denied permits to enter this country. Their ideas, Washington feared, might somehow pollute innocent American minds...
...VIETNAM ERA the would viewed Indochina through a blood-spattered lens crammed with searing images: napalmed and massacred villagers: a defiant Buddhist monk remaining upright during the final stages of self-immolation; a Vietcong suspect being shot point-blank through the temples; Khmer Rouge soldiers axing civilians; a widow wailing over a body...
...near mystical sway over a vast poor and working-class constituency. Today, however, the Peronists are torn by factional feuding, an affliction that many members believe could be cured if only Isabel (born Maria Estela) Martínez de Perón, the dictator's widow, would assert herself. Isabelita, as she is widely called, was ousted by the military in 1976 and banned from politics after a disastrous 21-month reign as Argentine President. She fled to self-exile in Spain, but last week the government restored her political rights, and many Peronists expect her to return...
...Calif., where he now resides. His main characters are a California couple vacationing on the French Riviera. After a boating accident, the husband, a self-centered young physician named Alex Davenport, is taken to a local hospital with head injuries; a team of French physicians pronounces him dead. His widow Marie suspects foul play. "Did they kill him . . . because of what I didn't do?" she muses mysteriously. The phrase has a paranoid cast, as does her fear of the open sky. A frequent fantasy: "Guns were leveled from that blue brightness, following her every step...