Word: paco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bright sun warmed some of the best ski competition of the Games in the women's and men's giant slaloms. The leader after the women's first run was Blanca Fernandez-Ochoa, a Spaniard (and, reporters told each other happily, a sometime bullfighter) whose brother Paco won the slalom at the '72 Games in Sapporo. Blanca, a powerful, driving skier, looked so strong that Spanish fans phoned to Calgary for champagne as they waited for the second...
...Counterlife held positions on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle named The Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar, Straus author, Larry Heinemann, won a National Book Award for his novel Paco's Story. Joseph Brodsky's Nobel Prize for Literature was a welcome honor, but then the publisher has no fewer than six other living laureates on its list: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elias Canetti, Wole Soyinka, Czeslaw Milosz and William Golding...
Look nonchalant, he thought, but his underarms were drenched. Paco Rabanne was gone. A series of bizarre movements which she then produced led him to believe that he was not meant to be in this nightclub. "I definitely must have been a mistake," he thought...
...fare, there's Roka (Eliot St.) a small spot that gets raves from sushi addicts. Also check-out the Square's newcomer Cafe Sushi (1105 Mass. Ave). The place sounds French, but the food is authentic and not too expensive. For Mexican fans, there's cafeteria-style (and -priced) Paco's Tacos (50 JFK St.). Another fast food spot is Tacomaker (JFK across from the Galeria), which offers 99-cent specials. For decent eats, La Pinata (16 Eliot St.) isn't bad and is cheap. Better is Casa Mexico (75 Winthrop St.), which is also correspondingly higher-priced...
...version of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is available in interactive form on a floppy disk (Telarium; $39.95). Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man) has actually created a software work from scratch: Amazon (Telarium; $39.95), which transports the player and a sidekick parrot named Paco into the jungles of South America in search of a lost city and hidden emeralds. Infocom, the Cambridge-based software company that pioneered interactive fiction, has released an electronic version of Douglas Adams' popular novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ($39.95), which last week jumped...