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...miles long. More puzzling still, there are distinctly nonlunar bumps, hillocks and rills. Some of the rills are remarkably straight, while others twist and turn, almost as if they had been carved out by flowing water. One photograph reveals two overlapping craters with a flow of material-possibly lava-on top of them. That would suggest a period of lava flows that may have followed a major bombardment from space...
...review, Octavio Paz described Los Olvidados as "implacable as the silent march of lava." I can't imagine a more apt metaphor to convey its impact. Famous scenes: the gang of young boys tormenting a blind man; Pedro's dream (more powerful and more complex than any described by Freud); the "second chance" offered by the liberal reformatory...
...some 175 verb suffixes and is unrelated to any Indo-European tongue. Those who live on the French side of the border are poor agricultural people, and many of them have been moving to Paris, Bordeaux and other cities. But the four Basque provinces of Spain (Vizcaya, Álava, Guipúzcoa and Navarra) are among the country's richest. Through the centuries many Basques have gone out into the world and achieved greatness. Among them: St. Francis Xavier and St. Ignatius of Loyola, Philosopher Miguel Unamuno and South American Revolutionary Hero...
...groups, the Wailers have remained faithful to the early, sparsely arranged, stoned-out reggae sound. With just their bass, lead guitar, electric organ, and a steady, understated drum beat, they create an eerily hypnotic musical style. The force behind the group's unrelenting swaying rhythms builds up like the lava emerging from a volcano. Bob Marley's lyrics combine Rastafarlan spirituality with an uncompromising insistence on political freedom; the Wailers create an atmosphere of a revolutionary cadre holding a ganja party in a Kingston ghetto. Unfortunately, Paul's Mall, which offers no dance floor, is probably one of the worst...
...volcano has stopped spewing lava, but it is still giving off a column of steamy white vapor that rises several hundred feet...