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Doña Herminia « Mi gato Calcetines
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Cuando caminaba, sus medias de cristal hacían fru, fru. Tenía una voz muy peculiar, inconfundible, con demasiado vibrato quizás (pero eso lo pienso ahora). Su voz se elevaba hermosa y desafiante por entre todas las demás cuando cantaba en la iglesia, sentada en la última fila de los bancos reservados para las niñas. Siempre me preguntaba cómo podía ser la tortuga tan imbécil de abrir la boca. No me parecía un sacrificio tan grande. Quizás, porque por entonces yo no era muy habladora. A veces nos premiaba...
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Willoughby: The moment I felt most American
http://spanishamericanenglish.blogspot.com/2011/07/moment-i-felt-most-american.html
Journalist-cum-writer-cum-socialite-on-a-budget living in Madrid. Capital of all the Spains. Friday, July 01, 2011. The moment I felt most American. N election day 1988 my mother, my sister and I were on a Jumbo Jet heading for Europe. We arrived in Madrid and within less than an hour we were on a train heading for the region of Extremadura, on the border with Portugal. The car which picked us up at the station was a white Ford Escort. I remember thinking then “ ok, I know this model, everythin...A coupl...
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Willoughby: @font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The news when in crisis
http://spanishamericanenglish.blogspot.com/2012/10/font-face-font-family-calibri.html
Journalist-cum-writer-cum-socialite-on-a-budget living in Madrid. Capital of all the Spains. Thursday, October 11, 2012. The news when in crisis. Ne of the worst aspects of Spain’s current socio-economic situation is the effect it is having on the news. Last week I met up with a man who told me about his youth during the Franco years. He told me about the time he traveled to Italy, in the early 1970s, and about a small incident which told me a lot about the power of freedom of speech and information.
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Willoughby: FACEBOOK, and other maps
http://spanishamericanenglish.blogspot.com/2010/12/facebook-and-other-maps.html
Journalist-cum-writer-cum-socialite-on-a-budget living in Madrid. Capital of all the Spains. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. FACEBOOK, and other maps. His is the new map of the world as influcenced by facebook. As you may gather from it, a lot of places have been left out. Here's a. Hires link to the f. Here's a link to they way facebook mapped the planet. According to people's friends. So, what defines modernity? In facebook's case, about 500 million people and their pairs of friends. And who is " modern.
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Willoughby: Outside
http://spanishamericanenglish.blogspot.com/2011/04/outside.html
Journalist-cum-writer-cum-socialite-on-a-budget living in Madrid. Capital of all the Spains. Thursday, April 07, 2011. Outside is different. What does this normally mean? Well, for starters, it means that everywhere you go, it is going to be different. Different? You may say, But of course! Yes, forget America’s obsession with hygiene and smells and get ready to enter the smelly world waiting for you just outside your local international airport terminal. Europeans feel superior to us. No, I can̵...
