Word: reina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reina Aguero fixes electrical wires in Fidel Castro's Cuba, while living with the "remnants of a bird's nest" in the chandelier of her decaying house; Constancia Aguero Cruz basks in affluent loneliness in Key Biscayne, Fla., where Cuban songs play "slow as regret, on the afternoon radio." Constancia wears Adolfo suits as she drives her pink Cadillac to the factory she owns; Reina sashays braless among the mahogany trees. Yet though they live on opposite sides of the revolution, both Aguero sisters share something deep as blood: a matter-of-fact commitment to the magic of their island...
...wise and generous storyteller, Garcia unfolds her tale by cutting back and forth between the eponymous sisters and the life of their father, a distinguished scientist pledged to catalog "every one of Cuba's nearly extinct birds." Reina and her daughter plot to escape their imprisoning paradise, while Constancia's husband Heberto, aging and mild-mannered, joins a brigade that dreams of recapturing it. Born in Havana and raised in the U.S., Garcia does soaring, zesty justice to the vagaries of both malfunctioning Cuba and daydreaming South Florida...
...freshman class could not have developed as successfully were it not for a corps of experienced veterans to guide them along the way. Senior captains Todd Davis and Khris Reina both performed admirably all season long for the Crimson...
...Sunshine Open tournament in Florida, Reina and Denunzio placed fourth, and Friedman won several matches...
...Reina won his first consolation match but lost to another unseeded wrestler from Franklin and Marshall, Bryan Icenhower...