Word: fincas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hemingway could also be charming, especially when they were apart. During one month's absence he wrote her 20 letters and half a dozen cables. He profoundly needed his well-bruised Muse, and as a Muse, as well as a wife, Mary clearly was hooked. At Finca Vigia, Hemingway's "charming ruin" of a house in Cuba, she typed his manuscripts, answered letters, checked receipts, and ran a household that numbered four gardeners, a cook, a butler, a maid, a chauffeur (not to mention the dogs and cats). On the Pilar, Hemingway's beloved 38-ft. yacht...
...finca wage varies for 50 cents to $1 per day, and many laborers die of malaria and insecticide poisoning. Population growth squeezes the farmers even more as their land is divided between sons each generation...
...told I'm too independent. It's a fault when you can't say 'Help!' but all I can do is retire and get solitary and work things out for myself." On such occasions, Diana will sometimes slip away to an old finca she bought some years ago on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. There is no electricity at the house. Characteristically, she does not plan...
...estate's manager, a naturalized Turk. But too many of the details do not stand up to examination. Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach does not own any ranch in Argentina. Al-fried Krupp's sister, Waldtraut Burckhardt, does own one in Salta province but it is called Finca Ampascachi, not Rancho Grande. The manager is a German, not a naturalized Turk...
...himself as a defiant Hemingway hero. He begins his narrative with those familiar short sentences: "The Juan March stood off the docks of Palma harbor. I needed coffee." Like so many would-be Hemingway heroes, though, he sees the role largely in terms of self-indulgence. He has a finca and a Mercedes and a pet monkey, and he boasts of his romantic adventures in a prose style that would embarrass even the creator of Across the River and into the Trees. Of Nina, he writes: "Call it love, call it madness -it may have been both...