Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quakers fought to a 14-14 tie mid-way through the third quarter and then went ahead, 17-14, on a 45-yd. John Dwyer field goal. But the Rogusky-Smith connection ended Penn's comeback, Lafayette punter Dave Page intentionally taking a safety to wind out the clock...
...central figure in Erendira is the corpulent grandmother who exerts ironfisted control--Marquez calls it a spell--over her granddaughter. When a "wind of misfortune" knocks over Erendira's candle igniting a fire that destroys the grandmother's opulent estate, the grandmother "with sincere pity" sells Erendira into a life of prostitution...
...social content, but also because of its power of penetrating reality, and better yet, because of its capacity to turn reality upside down so we can see the other side of it." By magically twisting reality so heaven is at the bottom of the sea and a mysterious wind brings a photographer on a bicycle, Marquez's stories tantalize his readers into grappling with disturbing, real questions about life and death...
...comes The Flounder, a long, magnificent passage of wind, a pungent humanizing of the past and present in which the Weltgeist (world spirit) is a talking fish, a warty, cunning creature with a crooked mouth and two freakish eyes on one side of its doormat body. This turbot, as it is called on the Continent, is also a male chauvinist who echoes one of the two main themes of the book: the eternal power struggle between men and women. The other persistent melody, the importance of cooking and nutrition in history, is in the tasty flesh of the flounder itself...
...fans from Harvard are watching now--take a 20 for style and watch out for crabs. Don't turn too much as you go through the Anderson Bridge or the stiff wind will toss you onto the Cambridge shore. Oh, yeah, and don't take the right hand arch--it carries a stiff 60-second penalty...