Word: afare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offset curbs, sinking streets and chipped cement steps in Hollister testify to the fault's ornery nature. To appreciate its sheer power, a trip to Almaden's Cienega Winery ten miles to the south is instructive. From afar, nothing seems amiss: manicured vines growing Cabernet, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes sweep to the base of the Gabilan Mountains. Up close, the scene is not so idyllic: the San Andreas splits the winery building like a conveyor belt. On the North American plate, employees are playing basketball. Across the road, on the Pacific plate, there is a seminar...
...like the Easter eggs she writes about, Freeman's tale is delicately and colorfully sketched. From afar, it is a bright and cheerful scene. Poor closely, however, and you begin to see the delicate flaws of the picture. Only then can you see the missed brush strokes and splotches splenty hidden in this pastoral scene...
...office of the brash young producer, who faces, in turn, a huge black tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when he's supposed to crack the pressure of the event; the "lady"--an actress whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near him as a boy--who doesn't want to go back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself, an elongated, hick-Frankenstein monster scared shitless at the prospect of being torn to shreds. In between the producer virtually...
...Spain's 2.7 million Basques (out of a total population of 37 million) have always posed a problem for the country's rulers. The Basque language (spoken only by about 20% of the region's people) is unique. The Basques have always resented government from afar, a tradition that goes as far back as the 8th century, when they did not submit to the Moorish invasion that conquered most of Spain...
...telling of tales through the verbatim transcripts of the participants themselves, in many ways seems a natural vehicle for exploring Vietnam. Oral history can provide a confused, halting narrative for a confused, halting war, through the words of the people who had to implement the insanities ordered from afar. The best thing about Everything We Had, one of two, new oral histories of Vietnam (the other is called Nam), is its cadence, the mesmerizing pace of the explanations of those who had to do unreasonable things and then try to survive them. This befuddlement that cost 57,000 Americans their...