Word: marias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maria Elizabeth Kaibel...
Yale's system is identical to Harvard's exceptthat shopping period is two weeks instead of one,according to Maria A. Capecelatro, officeassistant to the undergraduate registrar's officeat Yale...
...that their own miasmic backwater is uneventful. After Maria is bitten by a dog and begins to act strange, the local bishop suspects demonic possession. Cayetano is sent as an exorcist, but after one look at the girl's blue eyes and cascading copper hair, all that gets exorcised is his own inhibition. A Latin American Abelard and Heloise? Not quite. Garcia tells a story of forbidden love, but he demonstrates once again the vigor of his own passion: the daring and irresistible coupling of history and imagination...
...Other Demons (Knopf; 147 pages; $21). Their literary roots are unmistakable. The Marquis de Casalduero is "a funereal, effeminate man, as pale as a lily because the bats drained his blood while he slept." His powerhouse wife Bernarda imports and resells flour and sleeps with the help. Their daughter Maria has rejected her European origins for the Yoruban language and ornaments of her African servants. Added to this New World mix are Abrenuncio, a Portuguese-Jewish physician suspected of necromancy, and Father Cayetano Delaura, a young priest with a thirst for banned books and extraclerical activities...
...DIED. MARIA LUISA BEMBERG, 73, Latin America's foremost female film director; of stomach cancer; in Buenos Aires. Bemberg came to cinema relatively late in life, directing her first film at the age of 59. Typical of her feminist oeuvre was the Oscar-nominated Camila (1984), a melodrama of an aristocratic young woman who seeks romantic happiness with a Catholic priest...