Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should have taken a cue from their top player and tried to stop the show from going on at Palmer Dixon yesterday afternoon. For once the balls were out of the can, the match result was never in doubt as the Crimson easily served, volleyed and thundered their way past Penn with a 7-2 match...
...over distance, from Westernized civilization to its outposts and beyond. The author never met Nepalese or Tibetans completely isolated from the world outside their valleys, but he comes close. For Matthiessen, at least, this is a journey to the core. Time has no meaning in a land where the past is no different than the future, where there is only the present. As a Zen Buddhist, his goal is to live only in this present which he feels he does--when he meditates in clear mountain light, sitting beneath whirling raptors, eating sparse, rough food. Such moments, though, are rare...
...past years the fund has collected $45,000 in four-year pledges, but this year it is seeking only one-year pledges, so as not to interfere with the University's upcoming $250 million capital fund drive...
...Fuentes' past works, characters serve as allegories for social classes and periods in Mexican history. The same holds true in The Hydra Head. Timon and Ayub represent Arab competition with Mexico in the oil market. Their opposition to the president stems from Mexico's refusal to join OPEC. The director and Bernstein stand for Mexico's business sector's desire to gain control of government policy-making concerning oil. In the middle, the confused Maldonado, with his changing faces and indecisiveness, symbolizes Mexico. Fuentes makes him a converted Jew both to emphasize his transformations and his antipathy towards the Arab...
Fuentes is better suited to writing international thrillers than to his previous domestic historical novels. The Hydra Head is his tightest piece of writing--perhaps because he is writing about something he knows more about. His past raptures on Indians and condemnations of fellow members of the powerful cosmopolitan bourgeoisie seemed insincere. Writing about a highly-sexed group of jet-setters rather than peasants seems to come more naturally to Fuentes...