Word: casa
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Dack is short for Dacron. His brothers are Rayon and Orlon. They are among the neighbors Clea finds when she moves to a Vermont village and discovers that this seemingly idyllic countryside is filled with -- gasp! -- polyester. Down at Casa Loretta, they feature Spam burritos and Hawaiian pizza. The local postmistress steams open love letters, the Avon lady writes bad romance novels, and the sheriff makes pronouncements like "If you're not normal in this country, you get put in jail." Such rural New England cliches make Newhart seem like subtle satire, but Alther recycles them with such a tone...
...proceeds of the benefit will be evenly divided between The Pine Street Inn, a Cambridge homeless shelter, and Casa Myrna Vasquez, a shelter for battered women and children, the director of the foundation said...
...employees of the nearby Casa Mexico restaurant said that they and their customers are often disturbed by rowdy parties on upper floors of the Winthrop St. building...
...CASA member Dan McLaughlin said the recentarrests of several military officers for thekilling of six Jesuit priests in November did notpersuade him that Cristiani was improving hishuman-rights policies...
...first march I've seen at Harvard in my four years here. We took over the street," said John Donaghy '90-'91, a CASA member. "The cars were honking with...