Word: domingos
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...since 1976. For those who experienced the chaos of that earlier, turbulent era, the demonstration was a reminder of the volatility that has marred so much of Argentina's history, and once led to the kind of nationalistic populism that was the hallmark of the late dictator Juan Domingo...
...know was that U.S. officials had helped arrange his phony papers and that as soon as he stepped off the plane at Zurich he was being shadowed by a pair of federal marshals. He then flew directly to Madrid, where he boarded Iberia International Airlines flight 945 for Santo Domingo...
Since the names are completely unmodified, and the only motion, abstract or real, occurs when "names," the poem's subject, move around in weird physical ways, the conjuring becomes sloppy. Writing, "Domingo, Monico, Francisco, shining rivulets of sound." Nye plays with more than water in a desert. Since she has no control over the ideas these names evoke, the experiment fails-even if, by some coincidence, a reader jumps to the same ideas as Nye wants him to, the experiment misses as Art. A city cannot be reduced to a world because language can never be isolated from its meaning...
...authoritarian veneer was the scene last week as the government freed the country's last civilian President, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, 49, after five years of detention. A onetime cabaret dancer, she assumed power after the death in 1974 of her husband, Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, but proved to be woefully incompetent and was jailed in 1976 by the military junta for misusing public property. The military finally arranged her release to remove a rallying point for her still loyal followers, who remain the most potent civilian political force in the country...
...moved to Argentina in 1928 to escape the pogroms, was one of Buenos Aires' most influential journalists and newspaper publishers. That placed him dangerously close to the center of events as Argentina imploded in the late '60s and early '70s, during the second coming of Juan Domingo Peron. The country's civil identity virtually disappeared, with "Peronists assassinating Peronists, the military assassinating the military, union members assassinating union members, students other students, policemen other policemen." Ideas were replaced by the license to kill for them. Timerman was a Zionist, a social democrat, a moderate-and altogether...