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Buenos Aires
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  • In Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • It's a complex and difficult dance, so I'm up to three lessons a week, three nights out dancing, and I'm off to Buenos Aires for three months of immersion in tango culture.†   (source)
  • After these are set in motion, there's a doctor in Buenos Aires who does wonders with fingerprints-quite painlessly, I'm told-and then minor cosmetic surgery-Rio has the best, you know, far better than New York-just enough to alter the profile and perhaps remove a few years.†   (source)
  • "Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Oslo, Berlin, Moscow, Los Angeles," said Jia.†   (source)
  • She did not learn the story until the next fall, when he had graduated and returned to New York after a visit to his father in Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • My father was overseeing the construction of a rail line from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • "You've applied to UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, the University of Florida, the University of Buenos Aires, Northern Caribbean University, and the National University of Singapore.†   (source)
  • It has been forty years since I was last in Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • If it hadn't been for me, Scott Kincaid would have assigned you to the Buenos Aires office ages ago.†   (source)
  • Six months later there was another card, from Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • They've got cases now in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and they've got a case or two in Auckland.†   (source)
  • The caption below it says, "A controversial non-call in Buenos Aires."†   (source)
  • I'm flying to Buenos Aires day after tomorrow," he said, uncorking the bottle.†   (source)
  • From there it was finally sent to a bookstore in Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • Wondered what people of Buenos Aires and Montevideo thought about that.†   (source)
  • He was head of the Buenos Aires Institute—†   (source)
  • Alone I took the Institutes of Buenos Aires, of Bangkok, of Los Angeles ….†   (source)
  • He had already changed a Feingold from Vilna to a De Biedma from Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • That's the only thing I brought here from my palace in Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • So-called Slonim became Buenos Aires, a town I'd never heard of now stood in for Minsk.†   (source)
  • Father said quietly, "Shortly after Buenos Aires."†   (source)
  • La Mara Valiente lives in the nearby town of Buenos Aires and operates where the tracks cross Reforma Ranch.†   (source)
  • I stayed in radar room and watched, at extreme magnification, while he placed one in estuary between Montevideo and Buenos Aires; Mike could not have been more accurate.†   (source)
  • The boys in Buenos Aires and the boys in Santiago will probably want to hand me a subsidy, by way of consolation and reward.†   (source)
  • Most of them showed passages from Shadowhunter history: the Angel rising from the lake with the Mortal Instruments, the Angel passing the Gray Book to Jonathan Shadowhunter, the First Accords, the Battle of Shanghai, the Council of Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • He was twenty-three when his father died and he went to Buenos Aires to take over the d'Anconia estate, now his.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he left Buenos Aires to travel with his friend Maraa Kodama, dictating to her his thoughts on the felicity of a hot air balloon ride or the beauty of the tiger.†   (source)
  • The plumbing pipes-as well as most of our mining equipment-were purchased from the dealers whose main source of supply are the city dumps of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.†   (source)
  • I tell her about how my father, David Singer, found The History of Love in the window of a bookstore in Buenos Aires when he was twenty-two, while traveling alone with a topographical map, a compass, a Swiss Army knife, and a Spanish-Hebrew dictionary.†   (source)
  • The exception, on which all knowledge of the subject is based, is a collection of seventy-nine fossil gestures, prints of human hands frozen in midsentence and housed in a small museum in Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • There had been only one person whose reaction she had wanted to know; she had telephoned the Wayne-Falkland Hotel; but Senor Francisco d'Anconia, she was told, had gone back to Buenos Aires.†   (source)
  • When he entered his father's office in Buenos Aires, a large room, severe and modern as a laboratory, with photographs of the properties of d'Anconia Copper as sole ornament on its walls-photographs of the greatest mines, ore docks and foundries in the world-he saw, in the place of honor, facing his father's desk, a photograph of the Cleveland foundry with the new sign above its gate.†   (source)
  • It was Operation Bughouse, the First Battle of Klendathu in the history books, soon after Buenos Aires was smeared.†   (source)
  • I was already in bad shape for a personal reason: My mother had been in Buenos Aires when the Bugs smeared it.†   (source)
  • The loss of Buenos Aires did mean a great deal to me; it changed my life enormously, but this I did not know until many months later.†   (source)
  • Whether it was my fault because I was in the Armed Services and should have therefore prevented the raid, or whether she felt that my mother had made a trip to Buenos Aires because I wasn't home where I should have been, was not quite clear; she managed to imply both in the same sentence.†   (source)
  • This was the period, of course, after the Bugs had located our home planet, through the Skinnies, and had raided it, destroying Buenos Aires and turning "contact troubles" into all-out war, but before we had built up our forces and before the Skinnies had changed sides and become our co-belligerents and de facto allies.†   (source)
  • Those gallant young sons of financiers who flew planes in the twenties and took off to break records from New Orleans to Buenos Aires, over the jungles which sometimes collected both them and machines, their passions must have been on this order.†   (source)
  • At the age of fifteen, for a wager, he was disguised as a girl and taken to play at the big table in the Jockey Club at Buenos Aires; he dined with Proust and Gide and was on closer terms with Cocteau and Diaghilev; Firbank sent him his novels with fervent inscriptions; he had aroused three irreconcilable feuds in Capri; by his own account he had practiced black art in Cefalit and had been cured of drug-taking in California and of an Oedipus complex in Vienna.†   (source)
  • In fact, Mom finally staying out of my life was probably the only thing that prevented me from attempting to jog to Buenos Aires.†   (source)
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