Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States and Britain, George Bernard Shaw once remarked, are two nations separated by a common language. Today he might say much the same thing about the U.S. and the whole world. ICE CUBOS, says a sign in the Mexican resort of Acapulco. Lebanese audiences watching Rambo shout exhortations in English, and a Japanese rock-'n'-roll hit begins, "Let's dancin' people/ Hoshi-kuzu nagarete feel so good...
While film profits may not fund any springbreak trips to Acapulco, not all societies are having a unprofitable season. Csikszentmihalyi says that Dunster House has had a very successful semester, partly because it shows 13 films a semester--one every week--as opposed to the seven or eight per semester put on by the other societies...
...Acapulco Princess Hotel, Christina Acosta of Miami Beach was celebrating her 24th birthday when she saw the wall of her room "just crack straight down from the ceiling to the floor. The noise was terrible. It was the longest minute and a half of my life. I thought, 'This is it; I made it to 24 and now it's all over.' " When the rocking stopped, the damage was surprisingly small, even though Acapulco was only 150 miles from the epicenter. The radar at the city's airport was knocked out, stranding travelers for a time, and there...
...mile ribbon of Mexican Pacific coastline that stretches from Manzanillo to Acapulco has long been considered one of the world's beautiful places, home to a sprinkling of fishing hamlets and resorts. Yet beneath the indigo waves and silky white beaches lies a jagged fault line that could be one of the deadliest in the Western Hemisphere. It was this fault that erupted under the Pacific last week, causing the earthquake that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale,* rocked coastal towns and brought disaster to Mexico City...
...seeming paradox, the location of last week's quake was thought to be endangered because it had been calm for so long. The epicenter of the quake, in the ocean about 150 miles up the coast from Acapulco, lay within a kind of geological DMZ known as a seismic gap: a region that had not experienced a major earthquake for many years, but where bottled-up stress caused by tectonic-plate activity had reached the bursting point...