Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hideaway. In Rio de Janeiro, Cameraman Jorge Alves de Lima told cops that someone had robbed him of a lion skin worth about $300, added that it had great sentimental value "because the lion, when alive and still in possession of its skin, ate a very good friend of mine on a hunting excursion...
...subject of vital concern to the educated student." But the Twelfth Congress made a specific, though moderate, stand on the testing issue by expressing 'its confidence in the resolution of the ISC concerning 'a definite agreement on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests.'" USNSA (at the 8th ISC at Lima, Peru) backed that resolution in order to block a counterproposal by three Communist-dominated student unions to censure only the United States for continuing tests...
Time was when a fictional hero sold his soul to the Devil; nowadays the Devil often seems to sell his to the hero. Manhattan-born Sigrid de Lima, 37, has attempted a novel in the older fashion, but before Praise a Fine Day ends, her nameless painter-hero appears more devilish than the odd bargain he makes and breaks...
PRAISE A FINE DAY (179 pp.)-Sigrid de Lima-Random House...
...whole. Author de Lima's narrative offers more tricks than treats. She raises the question of artist v. society, love v. vocation, honor v. survival, but her hero is not big enough to embody these dilemmas. His conscience is not so much troubled as missing. Still, her book is a feast of the visual imagination. Herself the wife of a painter, she stipples Praise with vivid vignettes. And when it comes to dialogue, her ear is as good as her eye. Author de Lima raises a storm, all right, even if it is only a tempest in an espresso...