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...authors have taken the thematic framework of the book from the story of a 17th-century nun, Mariana Alcoforado. Sent to a convent at the age of 16 because her parents could not afford to provide her with a dowry, she was seduced and impregnated by a dashing French cavalier, who then abandoned her and returned to France with Napoleon's army. Mariana poured out her love and her bitterness in a series of five letters addressed to her seducer--the original Portuguese Letters, which were published in Paris...
...luncheon for U.S. businessmen in Lisbon, Ambassador Frank Carlucci emphasized that Portugal's ties to NATO are "extremely strong" and that the military is "determined to work within the NATO framework." Added Carlucci, under attack from Portuguese leftists for alleged ties to the CIA: "Most Armed Forces Movement members will tell you Portugal has to find its own path to socialism, and that will take a while...
...controversy's effect on the agents operating under deep cover in Communist and other potential enemy countries and on allied and other friendly intelligence organizations. He told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "A lot of them are in a state of shock. They cannot put into their own framework this idea of going on television, going to Capitol Hill, going into these secrets. They ask, 'Are we going to get in the middle of this? Is it going to come out that we have this secret relationship...
...Despite Cassavetes's denial of political intent, he says: "The Mabel character has a home and a husband that loves her and everything that would make a person extremely happy by the book, and yet she has this tremendous feeling of worthlessness because he has no place within the framework of this society that she's trying to abide...
...Harvard analytical tradition, I wanted him to "name" his movie, that is, I wanted him to take his portrait of Mabel Longhetti--a woman deemed mad by society because she was more loving than she was supposed to be--and place it in some kind of historical framework. It didn't work. The problem was that our minds worked differently; our mainsprings were as different as a housebroken canal and a frenzied torrent...