Word: cara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starry sky in emulation of Kunta Kinte's original African ritual. The sto ry's backbone and much of its meaning can be found in the loving relationships of Haley's grandparents (Stan Shaw and Bever-Leigh Banfield) and parents (Do rian Harewood and Irene Cara). Since these ancestors, unlike those of Roots 1, were never slaves, Roots 11 is able to dramatize normal black middle-class life - at home, work, college and war. For TV viewers weaned on The Jeffersons, their lives may come as a revelation. Roots 11 shows blacks sharing the same heart breaks...
Gogol produced the play in 1842, and the plot has been a staple in many lands: the comic trials and tribulations of marriage brokers and their clients. Fiokla (Barbara Bryne) is an accomplished matchmaker, but she has something of a problem bride-to-be in Agafya (Cara Duff-MacCormick). Agafya is a mer chant's daughter and a bit of a ninny. The three suitors Fiokla lines up are chauvinist piglets. Ivan Pavlovich Poach'tegg (Jon Cranney) is a blustery, pompous bureaucrat. Poach'tegg (sometimes translated Omelet) is only after Agafya's property, a two-story...
...three women and two men who deliver the numbers really deliver. Armelia McQueen is a husky-dusky sybil of song, Irene Cara wraps her voice in plaintive melancholy, and Nell Carter has a sensual verve that turns Cash for My Trash into a show-stopping aphrodisiac...
...crowded hospital in Cotabato, Cara Gausman, 22, is now recovering from a deep gash in her head. "I was asleep," she said. "Then everything hit my head-the water, the walls. About five minutes, maybe two minutes, I don't know, in the water, grabbing for wood, grabbing for anything. It was dark and under water. Afterward there were no more houses. Everything's gone. My brother's gone." Other survivors told of escaping the waves by running to the hillsides or clinging to coconut trees. One woman told of seeing her father swept...
Torturers generally refer to themselves by nicknames, in part because they do not want their victims to know their real identities. Often the nicknames derive from a physical feature, such as "the Tall One," or "the Mustachioed One." In South America, such aliases as El Aleman (the German), Cara de Culebra (Snake Face) and El Carnicero (the Butcher) are common. One particularly brutal torturer at Chile's Tejas Verdes camp near San Antonio used to tell prisoners his name was Pata en la Raja, meaning Kick...