Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentine Author Julio Cortazar, whose novel Rayuela had become a critical success in the U.S. as Hopscotch, offered Garcia Marquez a piece of advice based on his own happy experience: Get your book translated by Professor Gregory Rabassa of New York City. As it happened, Garcia Marquez had to wait a while; Rabassa was busy...
Once the black and crimson acceptance papersare mailed, the office waits for the May 1responses before deciding on admitting studentsfrom the wait lists. Some years no one gets in offthe wait list at all, but usually there are a fewstudents who, once deferred, gain acceptance in asecond round of admissions conferences...
...been put down on the books going back to 1872. But where somebody is losing a buck, there is always an American hustler trying to make one. The Illinois Central Railroad has put on additional cars to carry grain that can't go by water. Where the barges wait and wallow, small "midstreamers" dart here and there, peddling groceries and supplies to the stalled rivermen...
...becomes desperate, he may make some tentative moves toward democratic rule. The more likely prospect is grimmer: an extended military dictatorship, perhaps marked by the return of Duvalierist forces or even an outbreak of civil war. As for the Haitian people, they continue to do what they do best: wait and suffer
...noon Sunday the crowd may have had its fill of calamari, for by far the most popular booth was Smokin' Jim's, where ribs and chicken were barbecuing in open smoke pits, then to be brushed with a brassy sweet sauce. "I wait for this fair every year because I know Jim will be here," said a local housewife who would not give her name. "I can't give it because I sneaked in the side gate. I didn't want to pay an admission fee because all I want are the ribs. I'm buying extra slabs to freeze...