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With The Obscene Bird of Night (1973), his fourth book, Chilean Author José Donoso joined the front ranks of South American fabulists. His sprawling novel not only housed more grotesques than a whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute, baroque retellings of native legends and a riot of inventiveness. Donoso was inevitably mentioned in the same breath with Borges and Marquez as yet another prophetic surrealist bent on reimagining his colorful, tragic continent...
...Domaine de Cheval Blanc, a pleasant white Bordeaux, costs under $4. La Vieille Ferme '81, a satisfying red or white from the Rhone Valley, is now $3.49. Burka's store in Washington offers a 1981 Verdillac Bordeaux Superior for $3.49 a bottle, and a free wine rack goes with each case...
...cyclist whose bike was tagged yesterday complained that bike racks do not offer adequate protection for quick-release wheels. But Fennelly said that a new rack was placed near Emerson and more will be added the year
...Life movement as it is now known did not emerge until the Church effort fused with other conservative movements into the political patchwork of the New Right. Buoyed by the business dollars flowing into the New Right's free-market, less-government platform, the anti-abortion movement began to rack up political victories. Right to Life political action committees began to target key Congressional races--the same contests singled out by Republican, business and fundamentalist groups for support. Coordinated or not, the combined forces of these endorsements did contribute to some upsets...
Lower production costs do not necessarily translate into cheaper price tags on the rack. According to Chaikin, department stores have been taking higher and higher markups on their clothes. Twenty years ago, stores added only about 65% to the wholesale list price; today the margin exceeds 100%. Chaikin contends that imported items are marked up even higher so that they sell at the same prices as domestically made goods...