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Cela's flippant disdain for authority -- of whatever sort -- earned him the respect of exiled Spaniards who might otherwise have excoriated him for his allegiance in the civil war. In later years his fierce independence won increasing regard. He was among those, after Franco's death, who were asked to write a new Spanish constitution. Beyond that, his best novels, with their violent, poetic hyper-realities, affirmed a tradition that stretches from Cervantes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
Whether or not that proves true, the psychological buffeting Californians will endure will follow a characteristic pattern. Initial shock and fears will give way to a burst of elation. But that will quickly fade as the extent of the devastation sinks in. While few residents must confront the death of a loved one, many have lost their homes, which hold immense emotional as well as financial value. The destruction of family photographs can be tantamount to obliterating one's personal history...
France, her home from 1925 until her death in 1975 at age 69, may have been color-blind, but Baker never escaped the reality of race. Indeed, it was the exoticism of her black beauty and the apparent spontaneity of her jazz- inflected dancing that captivated French audiences. With negritude the cultural rage, Baker was nominated as queen of Paris' great Colonial Exposition of 1931 -- until critics pointed out the obvious, that she was neither French nor African. Baker was memorably reminded of that during a 1935 dinner party in New York City given by Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart...
...bumping up and down. People were falling off their bikes, running everywhere, getting out of their cars. Women were screaming. It was panic." Blocks away, turn-of-the-century houses swayed and crumpled. The entire downtown area, including the Pacific Garden Mall, was devastated. Three people were crushed to death. Outside Santa Cruz, the community closest to the quake's epicenter, a corral collapsed. As six frightened horses ran across a nearby road, a pickup truck plowed into them; the driver was killed...
...this latest, anonymous death may be more symbolic of the violence that has dogged the city in recent months...