Word: catalina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright spot for Anna among all this mordancy is Catalina, a Spanish girl who works at the hotel and who seems to take special care with the flowers she arranges in Anna's room each morning. Before long, Anna has become obsessed with this young woman: "In the evenings when I had a drink or two I would allow myself to think of her, as I might a painting or a beautiful garden. I would dwell on her body the way I never allowed myself to dwell on my own, exploring it with invisible hands, invisible eyes, touching her tentatively...
...remarkable is O'Brien's ability to make Anna's narrative seem casual, almost random, when in fact each incident, each encounter, adds another piece to a puzzle that Anna must solve. The villagers begin to mutter when they see the foreign woman so often in the company of Catalina. Anna, who thinks she has retreated to this place because she has loved and lost, must learn from her young friend that true devotion can begin only when loss and sacrifice are taken for granted...
...didn't even know there was a choice to beadmitted for the spring semester," said formerUniversity of Michigan student Catalina Girona'90, who applied last February for Septemberadmission...
...Later he goes riding with a top-hatted "squire straight out of Fielding" near the Ohio River, which reminds him of "Cliveden's Thames." Adam, meanwhile, is rolling through the grasslands of Wyoming, sporting new shades, listening to Van Morrison on the stereo system of his beloved Catalina and exulting that in his "rubber-cushioned automobility I feel closer to America than in any amount of digging around for the fact and the detail...
Radio station YSU said more than 150 people had been killed in the collapse of the 10-story Ruben Dario building. Another report, by Radio Cuscatlan, said 30 people, mostly children, died in the Santa Catalina building. Neither report could be confirmed immediately...