Word: gabrielic
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...Democrats what Jerry Ford was to the Republicans after Richard Nixon: a healing, avuncular presence and a guarantee that the congressional leadership would cease to be a staple on the nightly news. Despite some scurrilous efforts to spread rumors about him, Foley seems a shoo-in. "Only the Angel Gabriel could beat him," said one Congressman...
Professional interpreters are among the first to admit the sad state of translation in the courts. They are often relegated to clerical status, with low pay, and asked to work without time to prepare. Says New York interpreter Gabriel Felix: "We could use a central administrator, dictionaries and in some courts a place to hang our coats, a chair and a desk...
...American intellectuals, none of them Brazilian, issued a stinging open letter to Sarney accusing him of a "policy of ecocide and ethnocide" in the Amazon. The statement called for an immediate halt to "massive deforestation" and other "acts of barbarism." Among the signers were three prominent novelists: Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru...
...play loosely based on the Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Death of Santiago, written and directed by Tim Banker, goes up this weekend at the Loeb Mainstage. In this unprecedented rendition of the Nobel prize-winning author's work, the entire cast remains on stage for the performance based around the impending death of citizen Santiago Nazar. As in Marquez' novel, the entire town knows Nazar will be killed, but no one can stop the event from happening. In Banker's version, North American practicality weaves with South American magical realism to present...
...Rushdie's most bitterly disputed passages deals with the famous Satanic verses from which the novel takes its title. Here Mahound is tempted by Gibreel (obviously a reference to the angel Gabriel) to cut a deal with the enemies of his embryonic faith and tolerate worship of three of their goddesses alongside the one God. Gibreel later tells Mahound that the idea came from Satan, and the prophet orders acceptance of the rival deities to be stricken from his holy text...