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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel, The General in His Labyrinth, is about the last days of Simon Bolivar, but it can also be read as allegory. Having cast off the shackles of empire, tried to found a rudimentary democracy and earned the title of the Liberator, Bolivar dies in defeat. What he wants most is a single South American republic reaching from Caracas to Quito. But the passions of the revolution he led give way to those of separatism that he cannot control. His "golden dream of continental unity" becomes an embarrassing abstraction to his people, who begin following...
...After moving to New York City in 1968, he came to public attention with a proposal to paint a series of haunting silhouettes of demolished landmarks on building walls near the historic structures' former sites. In his first actual mural, on an all-but-blank side wall of a cast-iron structure, he painted windows and trim that uncannily duplicated the building's street front. The painting has since become as much of a landmark as its surroundings...
SHOGUN. You paid for the book, you sat through the mini-series, now applaud the costumes, scenery and special effects. Oh, yes, there's also a musical going on, but despite the efforts of an able (and authentically Asian) Broadway cast, the show remains as passive and emotionless as the unseen puppet Emperor...
...like Solidarity, which we hoped would prepare us for any setbacks," says Bronislaw Geremek, once a close adviser to Walesa who later allied himself with Mazowiecki. "This election proves that Poland, like all the others, must confront the authoritarian temptation." Next week it must also confront the temptation to cast its fate with a mysterious stranger, one who turned up suddenly to offer a dubious promise of salvation...
...Young, Gifted and Black is a powerful exposition of racial problems within American society. But this play is also the engaging story of one author's attempts to give voice to her own emotional concerns. And the success with which Frye and the rest of the cast reproduce Hansberry's life only makes the brevity of that life seem all the more tragic...