Word: raft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Haitian living in Fort Lauderdale, says she has been trying for months to obtain a visa for her 14-year-old son Kissene. She left him behind in Haiti with her mother, but she became ill and could no longer care for him. Kissene got on a raft with some friends, who got word to his mother that he was at Guantanamo...
...fellow that men and women like. But he is thought to be dangerously political, no great admirer of the British Empire, and this during the Boer War, a time of obligatory super-patriotism. Give Shea some troubles; he's half a day's receipts from bank- ruptcy, supporting a raft of relatives, too kindly to press customers for payment. Too soft altogether; he is strangely affected by the death of an unknown young woman in a botched abortion. As was the practice at the time, a constable carries the dead woman's severed head in a bottle of preservative...
...Monastery, 1961, and Monsoon, 1961-62, abstractness prevails more, but there are still traces of figures within the cells of Monastery; a kind of prayer hum seems to emanate from its gray congested surface, suggesting collectivity through the soft friction of forms. Monsoon encases a memory of the nightmare raft trip, with a disjointed white calligraphy playing, slower than lightning, over the darkness behind it. Its movements seem just on the point of incoherence, as though an already indeterminate Cubist space had been subject to unbearable stress. But it doesn't fall apart, and its precarious unity...
...Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay, was received with glad cries, and these still reverberated when his short story collection, A Model World, appeared. And then? Hmmm, let's see. The white whale's been done. Down the Mississippi on a raft? That too. Okay, lots of plots out there; maybe something about a dwarf in Germany who beats a drum...
...call him Fred -- who uses Wildfire, and you will be greeted by a ``personal receptionist'' who asks you to ``tell me your name, and I will try to find Fred for you.'' Half a minute may go by, but if Fred wants to talk to you -- even from his raft in the Colorado River - - he will get the message on his cell phone and come on the line. If Fred is too busy negotiating the rapids to talk, you can always leave him a voice- mail message. The reach of phone systems continues to extend across the planet, as cellular...