Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Swedish Academy last week announced its choice for the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, the reaction across the globe might be summarized as Que Cela, Cela? Was the award to Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela, 73, another example of the Academy's penchant for giving unheard-of writers undreamt-of recognition? Yes, in the sense that Cela has not had much impact outside his native land for a quarter-century. But on reflection, the better answer is no, for Cela, though now little read, has amassed a body of powerful, disturbing work -- and lived a risky, iconoclastic life...
...Wednesday most of San Francisco had returned to near normal. The BART mass-transit system, which suffered only minor damage to its tunnel beneath the Bay, resumed normal service, and airports in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose were operating again. The surest sign that the crisis was over: baseball commissioner Fay Vincent announced that the World Series would resume Tuesday night if local officials decide it could be done safely...
...devastation of San Francisco -- and a calamity for Santa Rosa and San Jose and every other California city from Eureka to Salinas -- began at 5:12 a.m., at the first light of what would have been a lovely day. A dreadful howling sound shattered the dawn, as the earth suddenly rumbled, vibrated, heaved and pitched, wobbling in a demonic dance. "The whole street was undulating," recalled police sergeant Jesse Cook. The quake shook the city, in words that became folklore, like a "terrier shaking...
...expectations that information can be instantaneous." Tuesday night was a reminder that there are limits to what even television can do when electricity and telephones and highways are knocked out. By the time most networks closed down for the night after five or six hours of coverage, San Jose and Santa Cruz were still disconcertingly cut off from contact, the scope of the tragedy on Oakland's I-880 was unknown, and it had been impossible for reporters to convey the full flavor of what life was like for 6 million residents of the Bay Area on a night they...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...