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...action begins when Cabezon, now a young man with considerable experience on the streets, puts his life at risk to shelter and then marry Isabel, a Jew fleeing the Inquisition that has already taken her parents. Condemned a heretic for harboring a Jew, Cabezon wanders Madrid only at the deadest hours. When he returns one morning to find his pregnant wife missing, Cabezon undertakes the journey that constitutes the second half of the novel...

Author: By Alexander E. Marashian, | Title: 1492: Year of Decision | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

...attack on 1492 has two parts. First, establishing the villainy of Columbus and his progeny (i.e., us). Columbus is "the deadest whitest male now offered for our detestation," writes Garry Wills. "If any historical figure can appropriately be loaded up with all the heresies of our time -- Eurocentrism, phallocentrism, imperialism, elitism and all-bad-things- generally-ism -- Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hail Columbus, Dead White Male | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...DEADEST DUCK George Lucas' $40 million Howard the Duck as it sank into box-office oblivion, proving that even the empire can strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of '86 | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Meanwhile the president and Mrs. Reagan are scheduled to celebrate the 350th by riding horses, chopping wood and sunning in the California mountains, where they have been since August 16. Usually one of the deadest times in Washington, the late summer is generally vacation period for the Congress and the White House...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: 'Very Busy' Reagan Forgoes Harvard Bash to Relax at Ranch | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

...wins are against the uninformed. As long as students remember the events of 1969, or can educate themselves, the boycott will continue. And maybe some December Dean Epps will get tired of sending around his invitations to join CRR, and the committee will finally be put to rest, the deadest of dead horses...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: CRR, Again and Again | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

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