Word: bodega
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...things at least culturally, and that is to preserve the culture, but also get some insight as to how the culture interacts with other generations, with another culture, and also about the inner life of the writers. My only fear is that writers delegate themselves to this corner bodega. To escape the provincialism of roots and be expansive in the manner of a wonderful writer like [Jose] Lezama Lima, or [Jorge Luis] Borges or, for that matter, someone like Rudyard Kipling. And if I can find a readership in that way, then I think it will take the shackles...
...with upkeep of a 105-ft. by 84-ft. lawn running about $4,000 a year and a set of croquet equipment costing as much as $3,500, the sport's appeal to the masses is limited. The court at Sonoma-Cutrer, built on 16 in. of sand from Bodega Bay, is mowed three times a day during the tournament to exactly three-sixteenths of an inch by lawn-mower blades with the precision of Ginsu knives and then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along here...
...grandchildren, while over at the M&I International food store, women who spent last summer in Odessa this summer buy kapchonka (dried fish), Yugoslavian black-currant syrup and Borjouri seltzer water direct from Soviet Georgia. El Mundo III in Jackson Heights is one of the city's 6,500 bodegas, tiny mama-y-papa Hispanic grocery stores that sell fresh coconuts and plantains, yucca and 10-lb. bags of rice, instant masa from Venezuela or Colombian figs in syrup. Compared with the big chain stores, bodegas are expensive but friendly, loose, Latin. "If you needed five cents," says the Cuban...
...children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. Not that the brain actually leaves the head during the summer months; rather, something happens to it, or on it, like a moon caught in an eccentric orbit between the sun and, say, East Hampton or Bodega Bay. Astronomers know this event either as the "mental equinox" or "cranial eclipse." It is not serious, causes no permanent damage; the apparatus is simply altered while the body is on vacation. After Labor Day, when the body stands vertical again, the brain pops back into shape like an inflated...
...center's experts say that all these efforts were well worth it: the Bodega Bay lobsters are as tasty as, and often less rubbery than, their cousins from the sea. But there are still difficulties to overcome...