Word: pico
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...Travel writer andTIME essayist Pico Iyer's first novel portrays a Cuba where, when the sun goes down, principles crumble, loyalties falter and certainties dissolve. The story is of Richard, an American photographer who, over the course of five visits to Cuba starting in 1987, becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and frustrations of the place. Chief among these is a Cuban girl named Lourdes, with whom Richard falls in love, and who is desparate to leave the island. TIME book reviewer William Boyd calls "Cuba and the Night" a "fine, rich and heady first novel...
...agricultural college where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," an inventor moos after suffering a "brain attack" and secretaries sell Amway products by telephone. "As jaunty and straightforward as its title, 'Moo' allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym," saysTIME critic Pico Iyer. "It is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work...
...admiring piece about Graham Greene and his commitment to understand every position and even sympathize with an enemy [Essay, Feb. 20], Pico Iyer reveals both the implications and the presuppositions of the modern relativist view. It is no surprise that placing mercy over justice would lead a man to uphold someone like Soviet double agent Kim Philby, an operative of the bloodiest dictatorship in history, and receive no moral condemnation for it. What may not be obvious, though, is how the lack of moral integrity today stems from an intellectual failure, the epistemological humility that refuses to hold anything...
...Plans are the main reasons why fingering people is so entertaining. More or less, you can write whatever you want in a .plan. Just type pico .plan, pour out that creativity, and save the changes. Many people like to load their .plans with song lyrics, famous quotes, and ASCII art (pictures composed of keyboard text). In a way, .plans are like eyes, windows to the soul...
Ralph D. Crosby Jr., Corporate Vice President and General Manager B-2 Division Northrop Grumman Corp. Pico Rivera, California