Word: bodega
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reports like these have earned Rivera the reputation of a crusader. They have also brought him unusual freedom. He and Cameraman Martin Berman have separate headquarters away from newsroom hustle in a cluttered basement office known as "Geraldo's Bodega." Rivera simply notifies the station when he has a report ready for broadcast. "Reporters are paid for each appearance on the air," says Rivera. "It is the greatest single cause of TV news mediocrity. It fosters quantity rather than quality...
...meaning is still its creator's secret-presents three couples who appear to exemplify the varying moods of love (definitely profane). The first couple (Gary Chryst and James Dunne) is composed of two Latinate boys in candy-striped leotards, who shuck and jive about the stage like bodega gauchos trying out for a revival of West Side Story. They end their number with a casually homoerotic hands-on-shoulders embrace...