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...just as important an influence was that of Latin American poets, such as Neruda, Huidobro, Gabriela, Mistral, and Octavio Paz. "Our (contemporary Latin American novelists') language is possible because the poets offered it. Poets like Neruda discovered local rhythms and the circular sense of time of our culture. And Borges, one of the founders of modern Latin American literature, taught us that the Spanish language was good for something other than making speeches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lengthy Career | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

...coveted Grand Prix of the Poêle d'Or in 1968. Though Peter says grandly in her preface that "we are liberated from the potato, which modern industrialization has made tasteless," her chefs offer five tasty dishes made with the proscribed pomme. An intriguing zucchini soufflé mistral comes from Colette Maudonnet, whose restaurant, Aux Naulets d'Anjou, is 160 miles southwest of Paris. Dominique Nahmias, who at 26 claims to be the youngest woman chef running a restaurant in France, the Olympe in Paris, prides herself on her salmon steaks cooked on a bed of sorrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feasts for Holiday and Every Day | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

South American writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriela Mistral. Jailed briefly in 1953 for speaking out against the Perón regime, Essayist-Translator Ocampo continued to edit and finance the magazine throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1979 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...possible ever since, is haunted by the place. She calls the city insolite, an indefinable French word meaning, well, indefinable. Yet she does manage to catch the essential, elusive Marseille: its smells (mostly fish, wine and paint); its sounds (church bells, ships' sirens, the howl of the mistral); its institutions, terrain, architecture and people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...Mistral, Randy Roos--Inn Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: May 12 - May 18 | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

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