Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since many regions suffer from a geographical mismatch, in which unemployed < youths in inner cities are unable to reach affluent suburbs where workers are needed, some employers are hauling in their work force in buses and vans. Magic Mountain, an amusement park 45 minutes north of Los Angeles, runs a bus during the summer that carries teenagers to work from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in East Los Angeles. Allstate Insurance operates 54 van routes to bring 600 employees to its headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook from their homes as far away as southern Wisconsin and northern Indiana...
Before the tears, here are some icy numbers from the Centers for Disease Control. Of the 65,780 cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome reported in the U.S. since June 1981, 37,195 are now filed under Deceased. The rest seem likely to join them unless a magic bullet is discovered soon. Researchers are pessimistic...
This is not to say that Carver is predictable. In almost every story, the given is a couple, either recently married or recently divorced, but against that given, Carver works a magic of great variation. He can hop from the first person wife ("So Much Water So Close To Home") to the first person husband ("Feathers") or the third person couple ("A Small, Good Thing"). There are blind men, peacocks, euthanasia, horny adolescents and psychopathic politicians...
...might guess that his dogs, if he had any, would be named Bromide and Quinine, that he would marry a brilliant and cranky actress and that he would make his last journey on earth in a load of shellfish. But it is not this magic element of predictability in a writer's destiny that concerns us but the stamina and courage he brings in an effort to vary this magic...
...these four playwrights, Sanchez-Scott is closest to the Latin American tradition of "magic realism," in which visionary or hallucinatory elements coexist with a gritty naturalism much as they do in the fiction of Borges and Garcia Marquez. In the play on which her reputation rests, Roosters, what seems a straightforward depiction of the life of farmhands gives way to mysterious visitations, symbolic cockfights enacted by dancers, virginal girls wearing wings, archetypal confrontations between father...