Word: gaucho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borges includes a few of his gaucho stories: spare, Kiplingesque tales of hard drinking and knife fights in provincial Argentina, where, he says, there is no small town "that isn't exactly like all the others - even to the point of thinking itself different." Such stories of pure action follow a ritual and rhythm - like simple milongas and tangos - that allow the author to dance briefly from the library stacks where he has spent most of his years. And where he truly belongs. For it is from the life of books that he discovered how to fit elegantly rigged...
...noon. After lunch, they join the leisure class for the rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner for two-or such Miami spas as the Cafe Chauveron, where a $100 tab for two is standard...
...smiling radiantly-the glowing, cover-girl smile remembered from the days before her troubles all began. To celebrate the occasion, she was stylishly dressed in gaucho pants, a dark, pin-stripe vest and a white blouse, and she was ebullient when she made a brief and jaunty appearance in San Francisco before the newsmen-some of whom applauded-who had covered her story for so long. "It would feel a lot better if I were home right now," she said. Moments later, that was precisely where she was headed. After 14 months in jail, Patty Hearst, 22, was released last...
...impact he so badly wanted and needed. There was no echo of Napoleon's dramatic escape from exile on Elba. Moreover, if Perón had planned to present himself as the instant solution to the troubles of Argentina and then ride off into the sunset like a gaucho De Gaulle with his charisma and place in history as a statesman intact, the scene was not quite right. Perón had, in fact, been forced to return to Argentina by the adroit maneuvering of Argentina's current President and military strongman, Alejandro Lanusse...
...good basic idea," she says, "we stick with it, just changing the sleeves, collars and accents." One popular outfit is her polyester knit Nancy Pants, and an other style is the Tom Jones blouse, which has a full sleeve with a wide, snug cuff. She makes gold lame pantsuits, gaucho pants, knickers and patio dresses, and refuses to rule out any particular style for her customers-except for "anything tight" and numbers with buttons all the way down the front (they may gap and pull open). Nancy Austin believes that her clothes make fat women feel happier. Perhaps...