Word: ibarra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mirta Ibarra as Diego's neighbor Nancy, a feisty and sensual woman "of a certain age" with whom David has an affair, turns in the film's other great performance. Ibarra, whose character is reminiscent of Maria Rojo in "Danzon," is at once funny, carnal and moving...
...Doerr avoids these cliches. Although she sets her story in a diminutive Mexican village with a disproportionate expatriate population, she treats her subject with all the originality of Nostromo or, well, of Stones for Ibarra, Doerr's previous book...
Doerr does more than regurgitate her past triumphs, however. While Stones for Ibarra examined an American couple forging new lives for themselves abroad, Consider This, Senora tells of four Yanquis living aloof from their Mexican surroundings. Rather than engage with their new land, the protagonists live apart, their Mexican adventure just a hiatus in the larger scheme. For them, Mexico is not a country in its own right, but an absence or escape from their former lives...
...bottom of the third, the Crimson mounted its only serious offensive threat. Freshman shortstop Leticia Ibarra walked and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Co-Captain Jen Clawson. With one out, sophomore secondbaseman Rachel Donaldson beat out an infield hit to put runners on the corners...
Reilly then delivered her third hit of the day, an RBI single to leftfield, scoring Ibarra. Sparrow grounded out, and the inning was over...