Word: gabriel
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COLLECTED STORIES by Gabriel Garcia Márquez Translated by Gregory Rabassa and S.J. Bernstein Harper & Row; 311 pages...
...MICHAEL'S (60)-Joe Smoolea 2-0-4; Jim Deitz 2-0-4; Don Mailliard 0-0-0; Bob Milliken 11-0-22; George Daway 7-0-14; J.B. Brown 2-0-4; Matt Jones 2-0-4; Chirs Booth 2-0-4; Gus Gabriel...
There were minor Grenadian fireworks, however, in Washington. Reagan Administration officials vehemently denied a charge by Richard Gabriel and Paul Savage, military historians at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., who claimed that a "significant" number of U.S. commandos were not counted in the official casualty toll. While hotly disputing that assertion, Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch admitted that the names of only 88 of 115 injured servicemen were released, either to protect the identity of special U.S. forces or at the request of the wounded...
Torrijos, who had wrested power from the ruling Arias family in 1968, was a showman, a strongman and a dreamer, an irresistible combination for Greene. The general was also a friend of Tito's, an admirer of Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez's novels and a lover of numerous mistresses. "How could one fail," writes Greene with pointed sincerity, "to like this man?" The general had remained in power be cause of what Greene acknowledges was "a streak of cynical wisdom." Torrijos liked to announce, "I don't want to enter into history. I want...
ERENDIRA The dreamscape of a Gabriel García Márquez story is like the vision of a Chagall on peyote. Violence and magic live there, in a desert village that holds the secret to every folktale and human atrocity. There a rose can glow in the dark, an orange open to reveal a diamond in its center, a paper butterfly take flight and land against a wall, fresh and flat as new paint. In a dark, lush corner of the Garcia Marquez canvas one can see Erendira (pronounced Eh-ren-de-ra) and her dotty grandmother. They live...