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Word: aguas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Encontre el trampero esta, el mosque y el agua alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sounding the Waters | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Instead, Benitez links the characters together by setting their stories against the background tale of the improbable Remedios, who performs short rituals every so often, each time summoning one of the four elements of tierra, fuego, agua, aire to her, to remind us of her latent existence. Remedios provides a superficial and irritating Great Earth Mother feel to A Place Where the Sea Remembers, the blurb on the book's jacket waxes fulsome over the "secret dreams and desires known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios' a healer who hears them all." Remedios' chants sound like...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Down to the Caesar Salad | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...constantly under guard. The traffickers, in turn, have proved endlessly inventive. On May 17, Customs agents discovered a 250-ft.-long, 5-ft.-wide concrete-and-steel reinforced tunnel that ran 35 ft. under the border, between a construction-supply warehouse in Douglas, Ariz., and a house in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Agents figure virtually all of Arizona's cocaine supply moved for a time via the passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...enforcement officers often speak of a narcotics pipeline across the American border, but little did they know how much truth there was in the metaphor. Last week astonished U.S. Customs agents unearthed an elaborate tunnel that began in the Mexican town of Agua Prieta and emerged 200 ft. away in Douglas, Ariz. Five ft. high and 4 ft. wide, the subterranean pathway had electric lighting, water pumps and storage compartments for drug caches. "It was just an exceptionally professionally engineered tunnel," said a Customs official. Agents first began to suspect the tunnel's existence last February, when a drug shipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Border: Arizona Pipeline | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...left him, or saying let's party," explains Blades, who opted instead to paint an expressionist canvas that included blessed sinners and murdered priests, the cry of political revolt and the stifled silence between lovers. In Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog), from the album Agua de Luna (Moon Water), Blades drew inspiration for words and music from the stories of his friend Garcia Marquez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBEN BLADES: Singer, Actor, Politico | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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