Word: argentina
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...Whether it is in Britain, Argentina, or West Africa [in The Heart of the Matter], it’s recognizable by its seediness, moral grayness…and above all, a kind of devotion to peasant shabbiness,” Wood says...
...some years to realize on what scale Naipaul had made a nuisance of himself. Since the early 1960s, when he began traveling around the world, Naipaul has infuriated not just Indians, whom he called "barbarous, indifferent and self-wounding," but also the citizens of Zaire ("trapped and static"), Argentina ("deficient and bogus"), Uruguay ("intellectually null ... parasitic"), the Caribbean (ruled by "the deadly comic-strip humour of Negro politics"), and the Muslim residents of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran (a case of collective "neurosis and nihilism"). Upon landing in a new country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken...
Life has to be busy for the man who helped make Latin movies the hot dish in world cinema. From Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, filmmakers have created works of whirling vigor, social conscience and a visual style just this side of surreal. And in these films audiences see compelling actors. Often in Almodvar films--Antonio Banderas, Penlope Cruz and Javier Bardem got early spotlights in them...
Garca Bernal attacks each role with ardor and exhaustive research. Preparing to play the young Guevara, he says, "for four months we were reading all the biographies, meeting people that met him, interviewing his family, studying leprosy, studying the economic and political cultures of Argentina and Peru. I went to visit where he was born, to get the blessings of the gods...
More exports have brought more wine tourists: their numbers in Argentina's Mendoza have been up 35% in the past two years. Guided by enologists hired via Argentine travel agencies for $40 a day, tourists are descending on Mendoza's sprawling plain, where winemakers like Catena have polo teams to entertain wine tasters, and many bed-and-breakfasts sport spectacular views of the snowcapped Andes. At the Familia Zuccardi vineyard, guests at asados (meat-grilling parties) are treated to tango shows. The influx has also shone a spotlight on Mendoza institutions like 1884, which Restaurant magazine recently rated the world...