Word: garcia
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...Maria Garcia is as hip as any 11-year-old in Seoul, Seattle or Sydney. Here at the Lomada School on La Gomera, the second-smallest of Spain's seven Canary Islands, she has a cell phone tucked into the waistband of her trousers, which leave a fashionably bare patch of tanned tummy. But Maria and her classmates are also masters of a form of low-tech communication that doesn't require batteries or microwaves. Along with about 1,800 other schoolchildren on this rugged volcanic island, Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language...
...cooking utensil], sound much the same, as do nada [nothing] and lana [wool]. Context tells you which." To test whether this is all lana over the visitor's eyes, Darias is asked to bring in some of his students. Antonio Ramos, Ivan Conrado, twins Paula and Mirta Rodriguez, Maria Garcia and Raico Sanchez do him proud. Maria whistles Antonio's name. He makes a sound that Darias spells out as fuio, which in Silbo means "What do you want?" She asks him the time. Antonio blasts back that it's 11:30 a.m. Paula Rodriguez is asked to whistle...
...Tyrant's Novel was written, sagely, sinuously, under the spell of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and their mad generalissimos. There is everywhere a whiff of Graham Greene, with his moral skirmishing in the gray areas. The current Iraq war is one of those. Keneally, who knows something about lies and hypocrisy, could have told you it would be. --By Richard Lacayo
...night before I was planning to pass on the shirt, I received an e-mail from Joe Garcia ’84, confirming that he was its original owner. It had been a gift from Dollar-a-Pound, a still-extant used clothing store in the Garment District. He passed it on to his successor as a bit of a joke, never expecting it to last...
...superabundance of lovers, the last of them Jeanne Hebuterne, the art-school student who was carrying his child when he died and who would take her own life the next day. It's no surprise that there's a movie of his life on the way, starring Andy Garcia. The surprise is that it took so long...