Word: marooning
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...drama on the Straits of Florida, most Cubans struggle on, trying to patch together a normal life. Government workers returned to their desks last week from August vacations. Children put on their maroon uniforms and went back to classrooms lacking books, pencils and paper. In the streets of Havana, the gossip has turned from Castro's woes -- the bad sugar harvest, the new taxes, the problem of prostitution -- to the rafters...
...whenever one of his narratives loses its forward motion, as happens early in this big, messy, off-and-on brilliant novel, Powers tends to go for flash. He sets off skyrockets, then more skyrockets. Great, arcing bursts of language streak across not just pages but whole chapters. (On pollution: "Maroon-brown patinas of condensing air . . . the noxious residue, the breakdown skeins of hydrocarbon linkages . . .") Then, before the afterimage can fade, the bedazzled firmament detonates again in grander, wilder colors. Great stuff, the reader thinks, and does anyone have an aspirin...
...Black, five foot, six inches tall and about 40-years-old, with short hair. She has been seen wearing a black leather jacket and sunglasses. The man, who is also Black and about six feet tall with a thin mustache, has been seen wearing a suit and driving a maroon, four-door sedan...
Eyewitnesses said the Friday night shooting began when a number of young men stepped out of a maroon Volkswagen Jetta GL and began firing...
Some minutes after the police arrived on the scene, a maroon Jetta appeared at the intersection of Brattle and JFK Streets and was immediately attacked by some young...