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...coffee shops and political salons cultivate witticisms to poison the President's reputation. One favorite is a Spanish pun on the name Corazon C. Aquino. With a finger at the chest, the speaker says, "Corazon, si" (she has a heart); with a finger at the head, he continues, "Aqui, no" (here, nothing...
...said that I would return when the swords flowered," declaimed Salvador Dali, 76, quoting from a Catalan poet "and ja soc aqui [I am here]. I shall be so brief that I have already finished." Thus began a slightly surreal press conference in the artist's home town of Figueras, Spain, that ended his mysterious six months of seclusion. To bring poetry to life, Dali carried an elaborate, eagle-headed sword and distributed tuberoses to reporters. His costume was no less vivid: a leopardskin coat and red barrenita cap. Answering questions in French, Spanish and Catalan, the painter declared...
...Huarás was practically destroyed. The beautiful resort city of Yungay, at the foot of towering Mount Huascarán, all but disappeared, like a modern Pompeii, beneath a layer of mud. When the government distributed an aerial photograph of the morass, the picture had to be labeled "Aqui estuvo Yungay" -Yungay was here. From the air, nothing was visible but the tops of four palm trees that had stood in the main square, the Plaza de Armas, and a white statue of Jesus in the cemetery...
...population were U.S. citizens when they arrived, and about half of them continue to speak nothing but Spanish. Last week, by the early dawning (6:307 a.m.) light of TV, some of them were learning their new home's native tongue. The program: WRCA-TV's Aqui se Habla Ingles (English Spoken Here...
From cluttered counters at the curbs, salesmen chanted: "Chega aqui, chega aqui" (stop here, stop here). Grinning Mineiros bought spun candy, tapir skins, plastic belts, holy pictures, soccer balls, coconut-milk gum. By the thousands they surged across the little bridge over the Maranhão river, and milled up the three-quarter-mile hill in sluggish serpentine. The town bank advertised: "We change money for alms...