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...more precisely, members of different immigrant groups struggling to establish themselves in the U.S. After the accordion maker (who, somewhat portentously, is always called that, even though Proulx gives his son the name Silvano) is killed in a xenophobic riot, the instrument finds its way to a German immigrant farmer on the Great Plains. He and his fellow Germans suffer persecution from the locals during World War I, and when he dies, the accordion winds up in Texas in the hands of a Mexican American similarly persecuted by gringos...
...heard the roar of winds and saw something like a fireball on the northwestern side of the sky. I jumped into an irrigation canal and escaped the demon's path." --A farmer in Bangladesh, of the tornado that leveled 60 villages and may have killed as many as 1,000 people...
...attracting may inspire people to take unwise risks. They are aware that the romance of tornado chasing has attracted a dangerous number of amateurs. Sometimes the scientists pull up in their instrumented cars to find a mob of folks with video cameras trained on a twister roaring through a farmer's field...
Chinese runner and double-world-record holder Wang Junxia, 22, clocked the fastest times of the year in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m at China's Olympic trials last week. Wang, a farmer's daughter, is recovering from leg injuries and a nasty split with her former coach Ma Junren. Under a grueling training regimen, "Ma's Army" of runners broke several records in 1993 but drew charges--never proved--that some members were given performance-enhancing drugs...
...must be eradicated...or the all-knowing sage...that must mix in completely with nature." The character Nobody seems to resemble the latter. He is both overly noble and gratingly mystic, even if his mysticism is related not to "nature" but to the writings of William Blake. Gary Farmer portrays Nobody with the kind of inscrutable poker-face we have come to expect from popular images of Native Americans...