Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circular structure of time in this family saga reminds one, inevitably, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, However, with its wistful quality and its preoccupation with love in extreme old age, Hijuelos' book bears a closer affinity to Love in the Time of Cholera. A Pantagruclian gusto concerning sea, food, and bodily functions also informs the novel...
...realize that by pushing for this we're going to be called separatists, but whatever they choose to call us is fine," Garcia says...
...Garcia rejects Jewett's concerns that a multicultural center would polarize the campus, "They're the only people who divide the campus at this point," he says of the administrators who oppose the center...
...Garcia and the Coalition for Diversity, the minority students center is now a clearly defined goal...
...first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, Mexican screenwriter Laura Esquivel brought Gabriel Garcia Marquez's brand of magic realism into the kitchen and the bedroom, the Latin woman's traditional castle and dungeon. The film version was written by Esquivel and directed by her husband Alfonso Arau, known to U.S. audiences for his performances in funky-flaky westerns. In The Wild Bunch he played a punk gunslinger and in Three Amigos! the malefic El Guapo, who spits out the immortal line "A plethora of pinatas...