Word: octavio
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...DIED. OCTAVIO PAZ, 84, Mexico's prolific man of letters who plumbed the mythic depths of his country's psyche in more than 40 volumes of poems and essays; of undisclosed causes; in Mexico City. Using his hybrid heritage (part Spanish, part Indian) as his starting point, Paz wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude, considered the seminal book on the Mexican mind-set. His starkly haunting metaphors of apathy and isolation made enemies among his countrymen but moved readers and, eventually, won him the Nobel Prize...
...Octavio Paz, the Nobel-prizewinning author who died last week, wrote a masterpiece years ago called The Labyrinth of Solitude. The book contained, among other things, a treatise on the dynamics of passionate love: "To realize itself, love must violate the rules of our world. It is scandalous and disorderly, a transgression committed by two stars that break out of their predestined orbits and rush together in the midst of space. The romantic conception of love, which implies a breaking away and a catastrophe, is the only one we know today because everything in our society prevents love from being...
...whole, as in the interplay between sculpture and base. And he especially loved form that spoke of life or awareness at their origins: primal, self-enclosed, a marble egg floating in its own space like a cell, an egglike head lying on its side, filled with what the poet Octavio Paz called "the dreams of undreaming stone...
Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem was re-elected with 49.9% of the vote, defeating his main rival, Senator Josa Octavio Bordon, who won 29.2%. Menem became the first Argentine to win back-to-back presidencies since Juan Peron...
After a hard day's acting, some Hollywood screen sirens like to unwind with a good book of Latin American poetry. At least Sharon Stone does. The actress is such a big fan of Octavio Paz's work, she offered to fly the Mexican poet -- in Atlanta for a gathering of Nobel Prize laureates -- to Savannah, Georgia, near where she's filming Last Dance with Rob Morrow, for lunch and a discussion of verse. After the poet's wife explained to him who Stone was, Paz told the Washington Post he was "amazed and delighted" that she knew...