Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gain the necessary perspective, Fuentes has often crossed the sometimes forbidden border which lies to the north. From the time he was a child growing up in Washington, Fuentes was influenced by American culture, where he recalls that one of his childhood memories is that of Dick Tracy. Subsequently, he has crossed and recrossed the border many times and has taught at a number of American universities including Dartmouth, Barnard, Columbia, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University...
...Jose Sanchez '79-'86, a Mexican American student from a Texas-Mexican border town, writing a novel is therapeutic. "My novel is a little laboratory for working on problems of mine," Sanchez says...
Sanchez novel, "The Hurricane Dance," is a love story between a coyote, or border smuggler, and a well-established shop-keeper. Both deal with the problem of reconciling the need to make money with the desire to help people in a run-down beach town on the Mexican border...
...rejecting me, buddy. I'm rejecting you," is as serious as rejection can get. Either less fun or less seriousness would make this play fit better into the audience's categorical perceptions about comedy and chaos. Then again, the fault may be intentional: perhaps the border between the two is what Durang meant to explore...
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome--AIDS--which until recently had been receiving the most attention in the U.S., has jumped the Atlantic and the Pacific, and brought with it the same fear and anxiety that continue to bedevil Americans. Indeed, the reactions frequently border on hysteria, adding ostracism and discrimination to the suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy...