Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allende pays her debt to her stylistic forbears through imitation. As has been noted by several reviewers, a few characters in The House of The Spirits bear more than passing resemblance to creations of Marquez. Rosa the Beautiful, the daughter of Senator del Valle who dies before her marriage to poor but proud Esteban Trueba, is a stand-in for Remedios Buendia of One Hundred Years of Solitude. And Allende's description of the huge Trueba mansion in decay reads like a passage from The Autumn of the Patriarch...
...year-old girl marched into the chambers of Los Angeles Judge Aviva Bobb two weeks ago and said she was afraid to tell the truth in court. Clutching a large teddy bear for support, she had already testified that Raymond Buckey, a preschool teacher, had sexually molested her, then killed a turtle in her presence and warned that her parents would also be killed if she told what had happened. Though she did finally complete her testimony, the girl's father pointed out that Buckey's presence caused her fear, "a good argument for closed-circuit...
...seas, of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. To titillate his fancy, she also spoke of three girls from Baghdad who danced & naked with a porter. Of a lady who beseeched two men to "pierce me with your rapiers." Of a woman's passion for a monkey, and a bear...
...should be noted how pernicious is Spitzer's view that only if women can abort their children can they "overcome restrictive gender roles and gain the ability to face life with the same options men take for granted." This view assumes that women are biologically inferior because they bear children, that pregnancy and childbearing are a liability, that women can become equal to men only if they nullify their womanhood and become like...
...most feared and grudgingly admired press entrepreneur in the English-speaking world. On the other is Marvin Davis, 59, son of a New York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim, 5 in. shorter and circumspect, though cordial, in manner. Both share an aversion to the spotlight, a passion for long working hours and, more to the point, a consuming interest in making their millions beget...