Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown's amazing comeback was completed with 2:18 remaining in regulation as Zamora struck again...
Brown winger Kim Insalaco, holding the puck behind the Harvard net, found winger Kristy Zamora wide open on the doorstep and she one-timed it past Springer, cutting the Crimson lead...
Women eclipse men in the book. Beautiful, flighty, intelligent, caustic, alcoholic, wily, unlovable, they are countless things, but never boring. Most male characters are secondary and not fully developed. The few male protagonists are consistently weaker--Doctor Zamora flees when he can't face his life. Carter, a college professor, is maddeningly passive in "His Women" and makes up with his ex-wife because he doesn't know what to do with himself now that he's alone. Adams smartly refuses to offer tidy explanations at the end of each story. The characters drives are ultimately a mystery. When...
...title story, Dr. Benito Zamora (a.k.a. "Dr. Do-Good" because of his charity work in his native Mexico) finds himself cripplingly alone and seeks to escape the city that is suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration...
...Women eclipse men in the book. Beautiful, flighty, intelligent, caustic, alcoholic, wily, unlovable, they are countless things, but never boring.Most male characters are secondary and not fully developed. The few male protagonists are consistently weaker--Doctor Zamora flees when he can't face his life. Carter, a college professor, is maddeningly passive in "His Women" and makes up with his ex-wife because he doesn't know what to do with himself now that he's alone. Adams smartly refuses to offer tidy explanations at the end of each story. The characters' drives are ultimately a mystery. When the book...