Word: beers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clara, the rough-brewed beer the state sells on Sunday in the town plaza, has loosened his tongue. For 30 years his life was good, he says, until dollars were allowed. "I worked, I earned my pay, my family could live just like my neighbors." But he has no family in the U.S. to send money, no relatives working in tourism to collect tips. "Some people can have dollars; I only earn pesos," says Alberto. "The people with dollars can buy a pair of shoes, and I cannot. Why should my neighbor have more than...
...speakeasies. Home restaurants are legal, but as a university-trained engineer, Octavio is barred from private enterprise. His official job earns him 300 pesos a month, a good salary in Cuba, but that equals a mere $2.50, the cost of a pork sandwich and a bottle of Labatt's beer on his patio. "I have kids, and they need to eat. They want ice cream, things in the stores," says Octavio, "so I do this. I have to have dollars...
Those who do not love Fidel have few options: wait until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find...
...year, Jesse Furman '94, bon vivant and editor of the Perspective, penned an article which labeled Inside EDGE sexist. Inside EDGE is, of course, the glossy magazine co-founded by Aaron Shapiro '94, which proclaimed in the first issue that it was "better than sex and less filling than beer...
...native language, the minority agencies have helped advertisers avoid tripping over their tongue. But the minority firms do more than simply translate. Says Eliot Kang, founder and president of AMKO, a Korean-owned agency: "We make sure companies like Budweiser don't use props like Spuds Mackenzie to sell beer to Koreans and Chinese...