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We hear the opening licks of the ZZ TOP song, "La Grange
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"La Grange" continues to play
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revolution, prowled the corridors of La Force Nouveau
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His existence, such as it was in the bosom of La
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the heart of La Force Nouveau
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Beyond sleep, Danton, grizzly Danton, the bear, the motive power behind the revolution, prowled the corridors of La Force Nouveau
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His existence, such as it was in the bosom of La Force Nouveau, was bounded by the fragile skeleton of sanity marked out by Citizen Marat’s regular outbursts
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The resultant stretch and rumple brought FA and LA into contact with the those other lonely forces so that through the progress of a now diatonic ascension and descension of any octave, having its existence among other octaves of similar nature, the forces could at last realize the imperative of their separation, i
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He gauged fairly accurately and now had: Re 216, Mi 240, Fa 256, Sol 288, La 320, and Ti 360
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That is why la Porete is to be burned for heresy
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spotted the arrival of the woman known as la Porete – to
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examined the faces around him as the fire spread and la
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what else, given the proximity of the execution of la
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execution of la Porete had obviously stirred the emotions
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And again like I told you elsewhere in this book, my law school career got interrupted by the Army inviting me to join them à la the draft
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La Charite a few days later, and the town was celebrating
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followers to return "la patrida", as they were
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There are plans to demolish it and build a new one, a la
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Mercier de la Riviere, some time intendant of Martinico, entitled, The natural and essential Order of Political Societies
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At Carthagena, Porto Bello, and La Vera Cruz, they had to encounter the competition of the Spanish merchants, who brought from Cadiz to those markets European goods, of the same kind with the outward cargo of their ship ; and in England they had to encounter that of the English merchants, who imported from Cadiz goods of the Spanish West Indies, of the same kind with the inward cargo
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“Have breakfast with me, at La Boheme
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La land with the baby was an acceptable way to live
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How else describe the arrogance, hubris, and downright lust for power a la the second Messiah that infests the Obamas and their senior minions in the ant hill (or is it termite mound) that has remade our nation"s capital? Recall that in the mid 1960"s J
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For that matter, he didn"t have Fiddle and Faddle a la Kennedy in the White House swimming pool nor did he, in the manner of Johnson, bend stenographers over the Oval Office desk
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We asked our clients to pay their airfare to La Paz but I always met them at the airport and took them to a nice hotel where the company paid for the first two nights
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I took them to breakfast, then showed them the city of La Paz
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The method here was to paint the picture of La Paz and put them in the picture
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All that time they were asking questions about La Paz, our
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I began by gathering information, painting a picture for the clients based on that information, putting them in the picture, both the bigger picture in La Paz and the
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Instead I sold my clients on what the La Paz area would do for them, the WIIFM, the “What’s In It For Me?”
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I’d moved on to Thailand and to my current, second time around in beautiful La
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” I’m comfortable with the climate that has benefited my arthritis, with the people, the economy, and the multiple attractions of La Paz and its vicinity
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That’s why my coworkers and I went to La Paz, then and now the
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When I heard of a chance to return to the La Paz area I jumped
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Of course La Paz has changed since the 1970s but almost
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With all that, La Paz is not a tourist trap
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Sure, it’s hot in La Paz as it is in most of the Baja at times, but it’s generally milder than it is in Cabo, the artist colony of Todos Santos, or many other settlements
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More than all this, La Paz has a real economy
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La Paz is a major transportation center
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because of its panoramic views of the city, the hills and mountains, and the Bay of La Paz
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La Paz is one of the safest cities
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smoking?” But, like the beauties and conveniences of La Paz, it’s true
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gofer and his buddy up the highway to La Paz, found that they’d
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I stared so hard that I had blurred vision even before entering the ring, trying to dominate him a la wanker versus killer (me)
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Both the Spanish battalions, Isabel la Catolica and Andalusia charged the position, but were driven back; and had Rabbi and his force been sent over, Escario admits that the Spaniards must have been routed
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When they released me I had to go to a rehab facility by the name of Country Villa, La Sierra
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Afternoon of the following day, while Beth was thinking about what to wear for her visit to La Hacienda, Truman called
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The beautiful stone stables of La Hacienda commanded a panoramic view from a wide terrace on the steep skirt of a long-dormant volcano
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After several tantrums of head tossing, impatient snorts and anxious hoof stomps, he reluctantly submitted to her will, and they returned to La Hacienda in a walk that she brought up to a gentle trot
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Beth arrived bubbling with exuberance about Puriscal, the feisty stallion and the intoxicating charm of La Hacienda
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Sylvia hadn’t misled her about the balcony of La Hacienda: if anything, she had understated its height above the gorge
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She had been mesmerized by droplets slanting over the roof of La Hacienda and falling into the abyss, missing the deck entirely
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Upon her return to La Hacienda, Mike insisted that Sylvia hear for herself what the prostitute had to say since, as he said: “you’d never fucking believe me
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He knew now that he’d been completely wrong: Sylvia felt no mother-son solidarity with him – never had! It was time to strike out on his own and getting his hands on that coke was the answer! There’d be money enough to be free of her forever! He tromped down on the accelerator of the La Hacienda 4X4 firing a spray of gravel behind as he followed the switchbacks and ruts then, with a squeal, the tires found pavement and he roared off towards San José
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Hoover had been prepared to send US ships and troops to take part in La Matanza (“the massacre”)
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Then there was the spot Sylvia picked out for his new home: La Hacienda
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They brewed up coffee and soup with the newcomers, who brought along a welcome three-day ration of survival foods a la special services or snipers
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History relates as well that, originally, that locality was nothing more than another neighborhood of Lumban, a city that Franciscan missionary Fray Juan de la Plasencia founded in 1578
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With a successful sale behind them, Sylvia gave the green light to repeat the process when animals became available and with that La Hacienda became a horse-trading enterprise, apart from the hotel
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La Hacienda should at least have the appearance of profitability
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Like it or not, before the IRS started asking difficult questions, La Hacienda was going to become a hotel and managed as such – with or without Mike at the helm
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Rather than spend his days lying around La Hacienda drunk and stoned, occasionally supervising his workers, he began passing both days and nights in San José, scurrying from one brothel to another
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As authors most often do, we exchanged books: she offered me her La sombra de las palabras (The Shadow of Words) and I handed her my Odyssey Fulfilled
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Mike’s buddies were no longer to use La Hacienda; she’d put them up in a hotel
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Fat chance! They were back at La Hacienda the moment she returned to the States
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Of course, I was not aware of that evidence, but I knew that the “Ermita de la Vera Cruz” (Hermitage of the True Cross), its name from very ancient times, enjoyed a very long history
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Between the old Church and La Casona
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Both localities, already described in my Odyssey to Opportunity, presented us with an opportune occasion of talking to Bobby and Danielle about the apparition of the Virgin Mary to the three little shepherds Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, and about the magnificent “Monasterio de Santa Maria de la Victoria later on in Batalha, which Juan I, first Portuguese king of the Avis Dynasty, ordered to be built to celebrate the defeat that his troops inflicted on the Spanish forces in 1385
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Her frequent trips to Boston for the purpose of personally carrying cash to Costa Rica where she could deposit it as La Hacienda profit were creating too regular of a pattern that was bound to attract attention eventually
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Accompanying us was my friend and colleague Raoul de la Sota, painter and nephew of Mexican actor Anthony Quinn, who, years later, also visited our delightful region
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The cans went among the assorted essentials in her toiletries bag and weren’t thought of again until evening, finally at home on the deck at La Hacienda, relaxing and Sal telephoned
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Several paying guests showed up her first week in La Hacienda, the next, they were full – and without any unpleasant scenes
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Money needed to be deposited into La Hacienda’s account and she had an appointment for a facial and manicure
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Perhaps if she offered him a share of La Hacienda’s profit, his own, to do with as he pleased, things would be better between them and the place would become a real hotel
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So then, all he needed do was stake out La Hacienda and be at the airport waiting when the group was seen loading luggage into the car
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Or so he must have thought! Fortunately for Sylvia, fate always seemed to have a strange way of putting her in the right place at the right time and, just as she entered La Hacienda returning from the hairdresser, the phone was ringing
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By the time they got done with Officer Vargas, he was under a two-week suspension, facing a possible departmental hearing for official harassment and restrained from approaching Michael, his friends or the grounds of La Hacienda! How sweet it was!
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All attempts to keep him and his “guys” separated and away from La Hacienda ended in frustration
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Luckily for him, she had other things on her mind, busily shuffling between Florida and New Mexico, with brief stops at La Hacienda to enter cash into the books, buy from Enrique and deliver sealed condoms to Alfredo
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Over lunch, Sylvia spoke of La Hacienda and her dream of creating a time-share triangle of hotels
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But, with his lusting after her so blatantly obvious, she thought to take advantage of the situation by allowing a friendship - and nothing more - to develop and as it grew, it afforded her ample opportunity to manipulate things such that she was able to use La Hacienda as her personal resort as freely as did he
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La Hacienda became a favored hideaway where she and her most privileged friends would engage in games of pleasure that could last an entire uninterrupted day or two
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‘Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose,’ or, the more things change, the more they stay the same
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They spoke of what they had in common: drugs, Mike and La Hacienda
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It even seemed possible that she might manipulate herself into a position to assume control of La Hacienda
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Presumably to cool off after a day’s work in the stables, she drove up the hill to La Hacienda
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They were nude, spread on lounge chairs on the deck of La Hacienda
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Those two weeks they were in Costa Rica had been a non-stop party that shifted between La Hacienda and San José’s hottest nightspots
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“Juanito,” he roared to the bartender, “two tables for my amigos and cerveza for everybody! And send over the señoritas! Tell them that, if they’re nice to us, maybe we’ll invite a couple of `em to La Hacienda for a fiesta! Hey but, Juanito,” he continued in lowered tones, “tell Chiquita I’m sorry but not tonight, I’ve already got a date, okay?” Upon seating, Mike began relating the story of his brief arrest at Juan Santa Maria Airport and the resulting harassment charge against a most hated cop
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The temptation to stay with him was strong, but she felt she had to take advantage of Sylvia’s absence if she hoped to get to Mike’s money and, if she played her cards right, maybe a share or all of La Hacienda
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`Yaz fucking-well earn it, and if it’s any of his damn business, THAT’S what La Hacienda’s purpose is, not as no damn hotel that no one ever goes to or a restaurant without customers
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On Michael’s board, he had long ago drawn the stable as an outbuilding of La Hacienda and he doubted that Michael had ever been on a horse, so naturally, it had never before registered as significant
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He drew a wide circle around the comically drawn woman mounted on horseback and with an arrow that skipped the inch of space between the boards, connected it with another circle about La Hacienda’s stables then stepped back, admiring his handiwork
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Food and music had been arranged, and La Hacienda’s staff had been filled out with additional hiring
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Beth read the story in La Nación then reread it more carefully than before
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They had come with orders to sabotage a factory by the name of La Palma located in Cucarrajil, close to Bluefields
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Most of the arms went up the Rio Escondido to Rama, but others were stored at the La Palma facility
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La Palma was constructed with high ceiling warehousing on the ground level
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It poured down the front of his turtleneck, as his gaze froze on the headline of La Nación folded beside his plate
