“a bridge away from Coconut Grove,”

The feel was that of a Latin capital, a year or two away from a new government.

tended to suggest a city under systematic siege.

locution

Here I am then in the Floridas, thought I,” John James Audubon wrote to the editor of The Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science during the course of an 1831 foray in the territory then still called the Floridas.

Do not fear a glorious death: To die for patria is to live.

quince,

A ten-page pamphlet found, along with $119,500 in small bills, in the Turnberry Isle apartment of an accused cocaine importer gave these tips for maintaining a secure profile: “Try to imitate an American in all his habits. Mow the lawn, wash the car, etc. . . . Have an occasional barbecue, inviting trusted relatives.” The wary citizen could on

Mariel appeared as a betrayal on the part of yet another administration, a deal with Fidel Castro, a decision by the Carter people to preserve the status quo in Cuba by siphoning off the momentum of what could have been, in the dreamtime of el exilio, where the betrayal which began with the Kennedy administration continued to the day at hand, a