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Mexican history, and particularly the nation's Aztec origins, form the subject matter and supply much of the imagery for Fuentes's novels. The Aztec god Quetzlcoati is a character in Terra Nostra, a fictionalized account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico that deals with events in eras ranging from feudal Spain to present-day Mexico...
...sleepy mountain town was heretofore known chiefly as the birthplace of Louise McPhetridge Thaden, winner in 1929 of the first cross-country Powder Puff Air Derby for women aviators. Now it is famous as the home of Walton, an individualist who flies his own Piper Aztec, hunts quail, and is worth $500 million to $700 million...
...Reporter Laura López headed south to Chiapas and Taxco. She also visited some of Mexico's most remote areas during the presidential campaign of Miguel de la Madrid and watched his helicopter fleet land, "no different in the eyes of the isolated villagers from seeing an Aztec god descend from the heavens." After a one-hour interview with the new President, Willwerth and López are optimistic that the recent mood of frankness will continue. De la Madrid's administration seems more open to the foreign press than that of his predecessor. But Willwerth remains...
...wife cannot transcend the anger she projects on him and her own guilt at the loss of the child. Instead they go to Mexico where she exploits his love of ornithology and sends him off chasing her imaginary birds, while he fantasizes about pushing her into the Aztec Sacrificial Well...
...Yankees are more like a grimly real family: sullen and bruised by grievances and quarrelsome and full of parricidal silences. Presiding over the drama is the militaristic alldaddy, Steinbrenner as the Great Santini. He thunders, and acquires a certain force of nature. He has the qualities of a local Aztec volcano. He behaves as if he expected the Yankees to sacrifice virgins to appease...