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...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...“A payday loan of a budget designed to get a hand-to-mouth government from here to the election” was how the FT’s UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley characterised it....
...for running a patriotic referendum campaign was to take voters’ minds off his own unpopularity and the evident support for the main opposition candidate in next year’s presidential election, María Corina Machado...
...“Just imagine the people hiding in the bush,” Machado said. “There is no direction, there is no instruction on where to go.”...
...She returned to Cuba in 1931, just before the president, Gerardo Machado, was forced to step down and Herrera’s own brothers were arrested....
...It’s a tale of movie giants, from stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway to writer Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski....
...Doug Preisse and Robert Klaffky, two Kasich advisers, say the governor was not interfering in the campaign....
...José Virgílio Lopes Enei, an infrastructure specialist and partner at Machado Meyer Sendacz Opice, a law firm, believes one reason for the slow rate of progress on this front has been the excessive level...
...Last week the government indicted María Corina Machado, a former congresswoman, for participating in an alleged assassination plot against Mr Maduro....
...But Gray, who leaves behind his partner Efrain Machado, mostly plied his trade out of the spotlight, a visible man-about-town but unseen when doing what he did best....
...If that makes me sound like a voyeur, I am in good company, including that of the Spanish poet Antonio Machado....
...Laurence Sterne, Milan Kundera, PG Wodehouse, Robert Musil, Gertrude Stein, Denis Diderot, Bohumil Hrabal, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh and Henry James....
...And what makes it even more unusual is that Ames is unmistakably a good man, or what the Spanish poet Antonio Machado called “good in the good sense of the word”....
...Machado Bettencourt, Sao Paulo, Brazil John Gapper: Yes, and it is something luxury brands struggle with....
...“Translation may be impossible, but it can at least be essayed,” writes Rabassa, refusing to bow to Robert Frost’s truism about poetry being what is lost in translation....
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