Paris, France May, 1972 To get to Parly 2, one drives west of Paris and through a short stretch of typical French countryside almost to the edge of the thick forest of Versailles before turning down a road that opens abruptly onto U.S. suburbia.
Guadalajara, Mexico The travel posters call it a “Land of Contrast,” but it might be more accurately described as a nation of violent extremes. There is hunger and gluttony, ruthless poverty and spectacular wealth; superstition, ignorance, and racism co-exist antagonistically with a highly-sophisticated intellectual,
It is not yet in. the guide books, and may never be, except perhaps as a curious bete noire, a grim specter of modern reality rising smack in the middle of the city of everyone’s nostalgia. But it is there, nevertheless, on a level with
Esther Vilar West Berlin April, 1972 Esther Vilar Esther Vilar was born in Buenos Aires in 1935 as Esther Margarata Katzer, the daughter of German immigrant parents. She studied medicine and spent several years working and traveling through the United States, Africa and
“I been havin’ a hard time Livin’ the good life…” From The Grateful Dead’s album,— Workingman’s Dead A great and time-honored tradition was dealt a staggering blow this year and yet (perhaps it was the primaries, the war, or the players’ strike) almost no one
