Word: caramba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dolefully on one of the clinic's bright, white beds and wrinkled his nose at the strange odor of Lysol. Suddenly his eyes widened slightly. Bearing down on him, with a hypodermic in one hand and an alcohol swab in the other, was a blonde American girl. "Caramba" he muttered, "Me va a injector la hueral" The girl smiled politely, swiftly completed her job, then turned to a sobbing little Indian boy. "No tengas miedo" she promised. Then she pulled down his pants, gave him an injection in the backside and hurried on to another patient...
...wasn't for the waves, caramba! Santa Marta would die, caramba!* The song's rhythm, moving from the easy to the explosive, is an ideal basis for the Porro Colombiano-a dance suggesting that the Santa Martans have learned some very sinuous slips on their banana peels...
Shouts of Caramba! were echoing in Holly wood after the "good-will" attempts of Don Ameche (el senor), Rita Hayworth (la senorita) and the brothers Ritz (los senores), until Mr. Disney stuck his diplomatic thumb into the Latin-American pic. What he pulled out was "Saludos Amigos," a light, colorful bit of entertainment for both sides of the equator. The film is not searching for any great light, but is merely the normal response of the Disney artists to what they saw and heard on their South American trip...