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With Cabezon the reader roams Madrid's narrow streets and the back alleys where chamber pots are emptied, enters an apothecary's shop where the contents of every vial are itemized, and loiters in the city squares-always with an ear to the edicts pronounced by the town criers.
Romeo Rodriguez squares his shoulders and curses Jesus...
It's all here: the bouncy opening (with all the characters grinning at one another in a Hollywood Squares-style grid), the featherbrained plots (Marcia tries to juggle two dates for the same night, then gets bopped on the nose by a football), the inane dialogue ("I think your problem...
That squares with the experiences of Donoghue's colleagues. "It would be Pollyanna of me to say that sexism doesn't exist," Randa Haines comments. "But I've been very lucky. I haven't faced any real discrimination." Nor has Bigelow, who says, "I've never felt I've been...
Last spring, Harvard Square residents successfully defeated a proposal to open a Boston Chicken franchise on Brattle St. Porter and Central Squares lack the organized neighborhood groups that can lobby against the establishment of fast food franchises.