Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. The Most Rev. James A. McNulty, 72, iron-willed, hot-tempered Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo; a conservative in matters of doctrine and discipline who nonetheless championed the cause of the poverty stricken in his own diocese and in Latin America; of a stroke; in Montclair...
...year-old peasant boy is rushed into the emergency room. Half of his left arm has been blown away and the other half is wrapped in a blood-dripping bandage. Three hours earlier, he had been walking his family's water buffalo in an open field when B-52 bombs rained down near...
...DAUGHTER BUFFALO...
Miss Frame's persistent themes are loneliness, madness and death. But again, as in dreams, distinctions dissolve and the themes can be interchangeable. In Daughter Buffalo, billed as her first novel with an American setting, even the characters seem to blur into each other. Talbot Edelman, M.D., is a self-acclaimed student of death whose inquiries include mutilating experiments on his dog Sally. A lyric-writing old gent named Turnlung is also an expert-a virtual memory bank of death and that other equable state, prenatal life. Both Talbot, the death scientist, and Turnlung, the death artist, develop...
...relative into a nursing home with a sigh of relief that Miss Frame compares with "the faint whirr made by the garbage disposal unit when it comes to rest after doing its work." Yet her central symbol for this evasive herdlike response to death is a six-month-old buffalo in the Central Park Zoo that is "already trained to bewilderment, immobility upon a counterfeit earth...