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Only a few years ago, thousands of Veracruzanos worked as cane cutters, coffee pickers and laborers in a state-owned petrochemical complex. When those industries faltered, however, the exodus began...
Aldea's performances have garnered him three dance awards for freestyle interpretations of the rote game that at first glance seems more suited to copycats than creative artists. In February, Aldea was the first DDR performer around to use a cane during a routine. More than 200 people packed the neon-lit Metreon showroom to watch the bespectacled dancer clamber onto the dance platform and coolly follow the game's flashing foot-pad squares while adding a show-off flair all his own. That swaggering, 180-beat-per-minute performance made him No. 1 in northern Cali-fornia. In previous...
...something from their Out of Time days. While it isn’t as immediately catchy as, say, “Losing My Religion,” the line about “that sugarcane that tasted good” keeps repeating and shouting in my ear... Mmm. Sugar cane...
...coming Home to Harlem, where life was sensuous and exotic; Zora Neale Hurston moved up there after writing Their Eyes Were Watching God; Countee Cullen wrote his poems; W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey delivered their polemics; and Lena Horne sang in the chorus at Ed Small's Sugar Cane Club...
...first day of the trial had all the trappings of a media circus. Dumas, dapper in a navy blue suit and leaning on a cane, was mobbed by photographers and had to be escorted into the courtroom by gendarmes. Deviers-Joncour, 53, arrived like a star at the Cannes Film Festival, dressed in a clinging black suit and smiling demurely at the shouting journalists. As she took a seat on one end of the bench, the male defendants clustered together at the other end, scrupulously avoiding eye contact with the woman who has described herself in a tell-all bestseller...