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Other characters include Benicia, the narrator's lover, whose most important characteristic seems to be her "nipples like sweet chestnuts;" Moucho Carroupo and his family, who all bear pockmarks on their foreheads which mark them as out-of-towners; the wealthy, eccentric old Miss Ramona and her mute Portuguese servant; Catuxa Bainte, an apparently retarded woman who prefers to go around topless; Robin Lebozan, who is writing a novel; and various local priests, each of whom have their favorite prostitutes...
...late as two months ago, had a temp job in a frock shop. His conversation is nonchalance unsullied by star ego. "I find it hard to be objective about the film," he says. "I can't see past the fact that I'm in it. I can't bear to look at myself, that's what it is. This is arrogant, but I think I look more beautiful -- if there is any beauty -- wearing jeans and a T shirt, just completely plain faced and normal, than I do in that film...
...glimpses of the human face and body start appearing in Rothenberg's work. These are bluntly autobiographical, fragments of depression that crunch a lot of extreme feeling into a very small figurative compass. They are miserable figuration, sparse in detail, almost resentfully so, but piercing in their plainness. They bear no relation at all to the general run of '80s Neo- Expressionism, which was overblown, self-dramatizing and almost industrially repetitive...
...book's final poem, entitled "Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices" takes the form of a dialogue between the poet and two Black women beaten to death in two American cities in the late seventies. The poet's closing words are "How much of this truth can I bear/ to see/ and still live/ unblinded?/ How much of this pain...
...much Clinton expects to change the existing plan is uncertain, though U.S. officials did vow not to force anything on Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Secretary of State Warren Christopher put the best gloss he could on the importance of "bringing the full weight of American diplomacy to bear." The U.S. was for the first time taking a direct role in the negotiations. Washington will send its own envoy, veteran diplomat and current Ambassador to NATO Reginald Bartholomew, to take part in the talks. His first stop was Moscow, to persuade Russia to join the peacemaking effort. Meanwhile...