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LATIN AMERICA. American tourists in Mexico are finding that the drop in the value of the peso, from 23 to the dollar in 1980 to about 190 today, has more than offset inflationary price rises. A room in the El Mirador Acapulco that went for $38 last year now costs...
Like all of Inge's best plays, Sheba is slight of plot but musky with atmosphere. An alcoholic chiropractor (Philip Bosco) and his slatternly wife (Shirley Knight) live in a dreary house in the Midwest, diverted from maudlin introspection only by their boarder, a sprightly college student (Mia Dillon...
Israel's construct is simple. He manipulates his characters and the plot to set up the pure existential, choice, a Sartrean quandry-cum-Kafkaesque absurdity. Does Rick shtup Tracy, the modern-day Aphrodite, at the party, and lose his marriage, or does he stick to his goes for a set...
Only a handful of my classmates went on to graduate school, and most of my classmates got married upon graduation, usually to worthy graduate students whom they would dutifully help, through law or medical school by working as researchers or secretaries. The height of their career aspirations, if they had...
The papers obtained by Smist show that one Schiavone detective, Robert Bermingham, was concerned about the legality of the company's snooping into grand jury proceedings. A memo to Shortley from Bermingham, dated June 21, 1982, warned that "a source in New York reported that Schiavone investigators in the...