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...have overtones of geographical compensation or willful obscurity, even though García Márquez is from a country with a modest literary tradition. The journalist and fiction writer has produced a series of enduring and popular works, including One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975). In them, García Márquez, a great admirer of William Faulkner, has created a kind of tropical Yoknapatawpha County, where "the silence was more ancient, and things were hard to see in the decrepit light." There, jungle folklore blends with Roman Catholicism, humor collides...
...dubbed the policy Volckernomics and accused the Federal Reserve of fostering recession and unemployment through high interest rates. In its primary goal of curbing inflation, the approach has been dramatically successful. The annual rate of inflation as measured by the consumer price index has gone from 15% in the autumn of 1979 to about 5% at present. In September, prices charged by producers actually declined at an annual rate of 1.7%. Market watchers have in fact been noticing a shift in Federal Reserve policy for several weeks. The central bank has chopped the important discount rate, which is what...
Cheered on by a booster club of more than 50 hysterical fans. Lowell completely dominated the play in the first half of a game played in brilliant autumn sunshine behind the Stadium...
...just a season, autumn is a time of life for a 43-year-old pitcher, and each National League division winner...
Peluce's character is so precocious, in fact, that he might skip a few grades and go right into the senior class at Crestridge High, where the calendar reads "Autumn 1982" but all available evidence indicates a stopover in the late 1950s. Crestridge is the sort of happy-go-lucky institution where Shelley Fabares ought to be the homecoming queen and Beaver Cleaver the hall monitor. It serves, however, as the unlikely temple of learning for Matthew Star, who is, literally, a space case. Matt (Peter Barton) is, as the opening narration informs, "a typical American teen-ager...