"This was Fiesta. Overhead were strings of colored lights. In the center of the square was a small green park, trees and benches and a draped in red-and-orange . A low cement wall ran around the park with entrances at each corner. Entrances hung with grotesque standards. In the street that circled the park, were thatched booths, smelling of food, the acrid smell of ; stacked with cases of , decorated with s, cheap canes topped with celluloid dolls wiggling feathers, and cheap sticks with flimsy yellow birds floating from them, balloons on brittle wooden sticks.This was Fiesta: a run-down carnival."
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Dorothy B. Hughes
(née Dorothy Belle Flanagan; August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993) was an American , literary critic, poet, and biographer of . Her poetry collection Dark Certainty (published in 1931) won the 1930 from . The successful films ' (1947) and ' (1950) were based on novels she published in 1946 and 1947, respectively. For her literary criticism she received two s: one in 1951 and another in 1976. In 1978 she was honored (along with Daphne du Maurier and ) with the Grand Master Awar
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