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...activity when the turtles are hauled in. The crew members emerge from anonymity as their speech patterns and private obsessions are repeated. The dialects begin to tease the ear with unheard melodies. Descriptive passages, when they occur, achieve a haunting beauty: "Where the bonita chop the surface, the minnows spray into the air in silver showers, all across the sunlit coral...
...refugees leave urgent personal messages about themselves in graffiti all around the camp-on the fences leading into the huts and immigration tents, on the sides of the shower stalls, even in spray paint across their tent flaps. Said one sign: "Tran Thi Hong da di California" (Tran Thi Hong gone to California...
...timeless enticements of a Mediterranean cruise-the visits to fabled isles, the sun and spray, the moonlight murmurings-were not for those aboard the French Line's Mermoz. The passengers, in fact, had little stomach for anything but their stomachs; the ship's 470 well-heeled and generally well-fleshed guests had signed up for an ocean voyage dedicated solely to gastronomy...
BELLA ABZUG, unmarried pregnant girls, Radcliffe women in Harvard classrooms, successful women and, potentially women who don't use feminine hygiene spray deodorants, all have one thing in particular in common. They all commit what Patricia Meyer Spacks identifies as the "ultimate feminine sin" of conspicuousness. They fail to remain in the background as women are supposed to do, with veils concealing their faces and faces concealing their thoughts...
...parachutists, who are outcasts in their own land, if they would draw upon their own resources and replace the sea of North American trash with their own culture--if they would do all this, they must continue fighting with guns as well as words. In the words of a spray-painted slogan on the walls of a poor neighborhood in Leon. "There will be a Christmas for everyone or there will be a Christmas...