Word: marquez
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...first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, Mexican screenwriter Laura Esquivel brought Gabriel Garcia Marquez's brand of magic realism into the kitchen and the bedroom, the Latin woman's traditional castle and dungeon. The film version was written by Esquivel and directed by her husband Alfonso Arau, known to U.S. audiences for his performances in funky-flaky westerns. In The Wild Bunch he played a punk gunslinger and in Three Amigos! the malefic El Guapo, who spits out the immortal line "A plethora of pinatas...
Abuse is a mild term for the torture that parents inflict. When he went on trial for murder last August in Olympia, Washington, Israel Marquez, 17, recited a litany of abuse that began when he was seven years old. His stepfather, a deputy sheriff and martial-arts expert, liked to punch him in the chest and slap him on the head. When he went through a bed-wetting period between the ages of seven and 12, the stepfather beat him with a 2-in.-wide belt. After hearing the boy's tale, the jury found Marquez guilty of the reduced...
...Pulitzer], and the novel certainly has its lyrical elements. In terms of poems, I remember deciding that certain people were pretty cool, like Langston Hughes, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, and then later on Adrienne Rich and Derek Walcott and in terms of novels Toni Morrison and Garcia Marquez and Kundera, but that list keeps growing and changing...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ...
What is missing from the book is Fidel. As in real life, he pulls the strings offstage, but he is rarely glimpsed up close. He appears for gloomy late-night ruminations with author Gabriel Garcia Marquez at a protocol house outside Havana and in a visit with children ages 6 to 14 where he drones on for three hours about the dialectics of Che. In the end, Oppenheimer doesn't make a convincing argument that Fidel is in his "final hour." His reporting, in fact, illustrates precisely how Castro remains in power: through a combination of personality, national pride...