Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your recent book Palm Latitudes, you portray a world of poor Latin women. Why did you choose to write about them...
...lived in the barrio for ten years. I spoke the language. The Los Angeles novel, in a purely abstract sense, would not be about Anglo people. Palm Latitudes is a book that wrote itself out of the aesthetics of the region. My feeling when I came to the end of it was "Yes, I see that. The 20th century is increasingly to live in the palm latitudes...
...other countries will enhance technological developments. In this respect the U.S. will remain Japan's most important partner. There's no doubt the U.S.'s position as a global leader will continue. But from the Japanese viewpoint, the U.S.'s desire to keep Japan or other countries in the palm of its hand is annoying. The Americans should dispassionately put the present world in historical perspective. Their failure to do so will jeopardize not only their future but also that of the rest of the world...
...unveiled a 2.2-kg (6-lb.) full-powered portable computer that fits in a briefcase. Sharp and Poqet make even smaller models that slip into a suit pocket. Today there are fax machines, radar detectors, electronic dictionaries, cellular telephones, color televisions, even videotape recorders that fit comfortably in the palm of a hand...
...literature, geography is destiny, she says. But there is an influential new aesthetic emerging from what she calls the "palm latitudes...