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...Outside the gates of the stadium, as groups of marchers await their turn in front of the cameras, there?s a lot of joshing and laughing. Lots of singing, too - not military dirges or paeans to the President, but traditional songs of love and camaraderie. A middle-aged man in the traditional Arab dishdash and red keffiyeh breaks into a tribal dance; a couple of young men, egged on by their mates, join in the jig. Soon there?s a circle of men clapping and cheering as the dangers strut their stuff. The commotion attracts the attention...
...remained unchanged. The Kroks may well now find their black tuxedos UpStaged by the wild pink and purple wallpaper, but there is always the possibility that they may get a similar makeover when they are finally forced to leave their Hasty Pudding home during renovations. A cappella fans anxiously await the leopard skin possibilities...
...tables oriented to face the sidewalk, just to get noticed and to have their application assessed. Those who’ve just popped in without a reservation should prepare for purgatory (but what a luxurious purgatory it is: Customers fidget on purposely distressed leather sofas while they anxiously await admission). All this entrance-intrigue is bathed in the lurid, erotic glow of red lamps clasped in the fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb as a sexual expedient in Annie Hall...
...await our food, Patricio chats up several of the employees of Real Taco. I follow him over. Despite six-plus years of Spanish instruction, I am utterly lost. Patricio later informs me they talked about owner Joel Espinoza’s Mexican heritage— he’s from Sinaloa, an area famous for the vacation spot Mazatlán. It is also established that the owner is a “nice guy.” Back at the table, Patricio comments on the high incidence of cute girls behind the counter. I cannot disagree...
...area of the park to another. There are also plans to release more rabbits into the wild, to replenish the animals' food supply. The best hope for the lynx is a captive breeding program, one of which may start soon in Doñana, where three female lynx await a suitable male. But these haven't proved successful in the past. "A national park is not a zoo," Delibes says. "The lynx are still wild animals who have to fend for themselves." To survive, though, they might need a little help from their friends...