Word: marias
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...about the Spanish Inquisition is, according to TIME critic John Skow, "very good, and a complete surprise." The story follows the separate torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel is redeemed by Harrison's chilling prose about women...
Erica D. Coleman '95, Sonia P. Lal '97 and Maria Rogahn '96 are among this year's nine recipients...
Since I may never again have the opportunity to be Upton Sinclair, I feel a duty to reveal all that I learned for the good of the American consumer. Never eat the popcorn at a movie theater. I must relate the story of the time Gina Maria Sandoval, she of the big hair, the Kabuki harlot make-up and the lavender Lee Press-On nails, was in charge of making the popcorn. We heard a muffled cry of horror and a Spanish expletive emerge from the lovely Gina, who she told us that she had lost one of her nails...
...MARIA SPERANSKAYA gives a bleak recitation of war's reality. She is 86, a retired doctor in Nizhni Novgorod who served as a combat surgeon through the worst of the war. One of her duties was to inspect trainloads of newly arrived wounded. She decided which of them should be treated and which were so badly off that they must be left to die. "I was known," she says, "for my precision...
...stole a pass from Colligan that sailed over junior Maria Hennessey's head, ran down the field past the defense and scored...