Word: julio
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CRONOPIOS AND FAMAS by Julio Cortazar. 161 pages. Random House...
Until that dawn of destruction, the best advice is to go merrily, merrily. For "the deepest insights sometimes emerge from a joke, a gag, or a slap in the face," says Argentina's Julio Cortazar, author of the highly praised fantasy-novel Hopscotch and of Blow-Up, the short story turned hit movie by Michelangelo Antonioni...
...been in my nature." During his college years, he worked for a summer as a riveter and spot welder at Studebaker's South Bend plant. Looking through French art periodicals in his art-student days, he saw how Pablo Picasso, working with the Spanish metalworker Julio González, had built small sculptures of welded steel. In the fall of 1933, he abandoned painting, rented space in a machine shop called the Terminal Iron Works in Brooklyn, bought a welder's torch and outfit, and began to weld...
...freshman meet saw a complete reversal of the varsity results. Penn ace Julio Piazza smashed Dave Pottetti's meet record by more than forty seconds and led a 15-48 victory over the Crimson frosh...
...fired his army, navy and air force chiefs in a single, deft purge. The move rid General Onganía of a significant liberal military opposition and gave him near-absolute power for the first time in his 26 months in office. The officers he sacked were Lieut. General Julio Alsogaray, Admiral Benigno Varela, commander of naval operations, and Brigadier General Adolfo Alvarez, air force commander in chief...