Word: garcias
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...younger expressionist artist, like Germany's Anselm Kiefer or England's Frank Auerbach. Though it has some gifted realist painters, notably William Bailey and Neil Welliver, none can be said to compare, in point of intensity and unsparing intelligence, with England's Lucien Freud or Spain's Antonio Lopez Garcia...
...aboard the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise and had been in charge of communications security at the Alameda Naval Air Station near Oakland. He was familiar with the Navy's Indian Ocean activities thanks to two tours of duty at the highly secret base on the remote island of Diego Garcia. The FBI claimed that Whitworth had operated "at the heart of Navy communications." Retired Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll called him "a dream agent" for the Soviets...
...joined the Naval Reserve while in high school, attended a junior college for two years, then made the Navy his career. His path crossed that of John Walker when both taught at the Navy Communications School in San Diego early in the 1970s. He shipped out to Diego Garcia in February 1973, assigned to what the FBI calls "sensitive technical communications." Next came a course in satellites at the Army Communications Electronics School in Fort Monmouth, N.J. He was sent back to Diego Garcia for a tour that ended in 1976, when he became a communications specialist aboard the carrier...
...Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits, this conventional plot line is infused with a flair for fantasy and magic pecliar to the gfreat I am American author of the last 25 years Like Miguel Angel Asturials and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Children Allende presents such oddities as a child who can see the future, a beautiful woman with almost transparent skin and green hair and a dog larger than a horse with utter disregard for any possible disbelief. Like the best of Marquez, The House of The Sports retains the innocence. Which comes from writing about the bizarre...
...coup that felled her uncle and the terror that followed as it hits all the members of her fictional family, whatever their politics. Hers is an evenhanded account told with much poignancy. Regrettably, however, the novel stumbles to a close when the author falls back upon one of Garcia Marquez's hoariest literary devices: the discovery of an old manuscript that predicts the family's whole history. Though Allende's debut is full of promise, she still needs to break away from the domination of her unwitting mentor before she can fully display her distinctive voice...