Word: gabrielic
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...houses from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece: in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez completely and gloriously occupied his mythical territory of Macondo, a tropical Yoknapatawpha...
...Gabriel Fallopius, Padua, circa...
Awards may look fat now, but how lean will they get after 20 years of inflation? With that sobering prospect in mind, the lawyers and family of Mrs. June Walker, 52, now lying in a coma in a San Gabriel, Calif., nursing home as a result of a series of improper medical procedures that occurred in a U.C.L.A. clinic, have worked out a new inflation-proof twist for damages in a malpractice suit. Faced with charges that ranged from unnecessary surgery, falsification of records and failure to monitor the patient, University of California regents have agreed to pay Mrs. Walker...
...Attorney James N. Gabriel said there was a "very, very distinct possibility" of taking cases to a grand jury. He said he would investigate attempts to intimidate people, and groups operating deliberately to frustrate the court order...
...than a coup d'etat in Central America; the lingering death throes of a Scandinavian king consistently merits more attention than the demise of an el Presidente. The Monroe Doctrine took care of Latin America once and for all; we haven't had to think about it since. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes in No One Writes to the Colonel, to outsiders "South America is a man with a moustache, a guitar, and a gun. They don't understand the problem...