Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MIXED BLESSINGS. Luis Santeiro deftly adapts Moliere's Tartuffe into a loving lampoon of life among nouveau riche Cuban Americans in contemporary Miami, at that city's Coconut Grove Playhouse...
Dressed in combat fatigues and a bomber jacket, Cuban-born Pedro Rene Comas- Banos apparently slipped past American Airlines security in Los Angeles International Airport on Memorial Day weekend carrying a starter's pistol, two knives and a pair of scissors. Soon after, he forced a Miami-bound 727 to head for Havana. Pleading that the plane was running out of fuel, the pilot landed in Florida, where, after 90 minutes of negotiation with the FBI, the hijacker surrendered...
MIXED BLESSINGS. Luis Santeiro deftly adapts Moliere's Tartuffe into a loving lampoon of life among nouveau riche Cuban Americans in contemporary Miami, at that city's Coconut Grove Playhouse...
Accepting a place on a five-member national governing junta dominated by the Sandinistas, Violeta was soon appalled by the course the country's new rulers were taking: "I began to see an excessive militarism, an exaggerated Cuban presence and less interest in democratic ideas." She resigned from the junta in April 1980 and turned her attention to her paper...
...roster of current or recent offerings on stages around the U.S. is as remarkable for its diversity as for its proficiency. Santeiro's Mixed Blessings, an adaptation of Tartuffe as a loving lampoon of nouveau-riche Cuban Americans, is the sprightliest and most polished, and it proves the axiom that art has the most universal appeal when it is the most specific. The script is remarkably faithful to Moliere's original in plot and characters, yet entirely contemporary -- a duality hilariously hinted at, before the curtain rises, when the sound system tinkles out Guantanamera on a harpsichord. A Cuban emigre...