Tag: bananas
Banana Yellow (53)
UNITED STATES—It was only after proffering the first installment of the bribe to the President, General Juan Diego Arreola, that one of the adjutants...
Banana Yellow (51)
UNITED STATES—“Honey, I’m home,” said Max as he pushed open the door of their Park Avenue apartment, both opulent and sterile. That pleasant whoosh,...
Banana Yellow (44)
UNITED STATES—It was gonna be the godless hour of eleven in the morning. The two landholders had arrived to consummate the Company deals and...
Banana Yellow (32)
UNITED STATES—Sam Delaney must not have been a businessman at heart. As a class they are often encouraged to be psychopaths at the extreme,...
Banana Yellow 30.5
UNITED STATES—“You heard what I said,” said Nash. Ochoa compressed his lips and looked like a many in the heat about to collapse from...
Banana Yellow (30)
UNITED STATES—The landowners in Bananaland, who had sold out and then made a bonanza, they too would be on a train, not immune to...
Banana Yellow (29)
UNITED STATES—The Great Andean Poet, whose immortal plaint evoked the crime of the Allied Fruit Co., it read like a list of Bernie’s top...
Banana Yellow (28)
UNITED STATES—The Crescent City press slyly mocked Sam’s residual Russian accent in the headline ‘Philantropical’ PROJECT ANNOUNCED. Sam Delaney’s ambition was to cure the...
Banana Yellow (27)
UNITED STATES—Sam Delaney was an ingratiating presence, and he had a big fine office building (at 12 stories you could do a lot of...
Banana Yellow (23)
UNITED STATES—February 3, 1975. . . 7:53 a.m. EST. I’ve hurled myself at approximate 8 a.m. this Monday into the smutty white void. The...
Banana Yellow (22)
UNITED STATES—“I am unhappy here,” Juana said.
“You should go back to your land,” Antonio told Juana.
“It isn’t there anymore. The has been sold to...
Banana Yellow (21)
UNITED STATES—The harshness was candy-coated by money, which was for people what meat was for dogs. The mere scent whipped folks into...
Banana Yellow (19)
UNITED STATES—It was hushed in the long barracks at night in the Valle de Sula where Juana and Antonio had met up, of all...
Banana Yellow (18)
UNITED STATES—President Saavedra was in thrall to the article of truth, the wizards of warcraft held close to their chests, that La Ceiba was...
Banana Yellow (17)
UNITED STATES—When General Martinez finally rode in with his troops to the town under siege, a savage battle was waged. Hundreds, on either side,...
Banana Yellow (15)
UNITED STATES—Puerto Cortés waved the white flag without a single shot fired. With the rebels in control of the territory, Joe Holly moved into...
Banana Yellow (14)
UNITED STATES—That winter’s night with the raw wind blowing, Sam Delaney left the orange glow of the fireplace of his home in the uptown...
Banana Yellow (13)
UNITED STATES—His bosom buddy, who’d dubbed him “the incredible Yanqui,” the exiled Miguel Padilla, retorted, “Well, compadre. I’ve heard of a White House being...
Banana Yellow (12)
UNITED STATES—Storyville was the kind of place where it was natural to get hot and excited even in the sharp December chill that blew...
Banana Yellow (11)
UNITED STATES—In 1899, the renowned soldier for hire, Joe Holly, defected to the Honduran Government army, a move that crumbled any semblance of integrity...