Word: casas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expensive. For Mexican fans, there's cafeteria-style (and -priced) Paco's Tacos (50 JFK St.). Another fast food spot is Tacomaker (JFK across from the Galeria), which offers 99-cent specials. For decent eats, La Pinata (16 Eliot St.) isn't bad and is cheap. Better is Casa Mexico (75 Winthrop St.), which is also correspondingly higher-priced, but at least the burritos are worth digging into...
...From the Casa Presidential in San Salvador, José Napoleón Duarte last week issued a decree creating a commission to investigate political killings committed by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. In a country where 50,000 people, 1 out of every 100 citizens, have died in political violence of one sort or another in the past five years, the news should have been greeted with sweeping enthusiasm. Instead, it was hardly greeted at all. The announcement was mentioned only briefly in the capital's three major newspapers and received no coverage on the country...
...Duarte looks a decade older than his years. He seems especially weary after dealing with the usual parade of favor seekers, this one hoping for a job, that one requesting reprieve from a parking ticket. So popular is Duarte among the people that a Sunday open house at the Casa Presidencial in June drew a crowd of 3,000. The President, characteristically, insisted on posing for photos with each guest. When that proved too time consuming, he posed with them in pairs, then groups of ten, then delegations of several hundred. The photo session still took four hours, and Duarte...
...would-be sophisticates there is Casablanca (40 Brattle St), in the same complex as the Brattle Theater. Casa B comes complete with Bogey and Catherine posters, recessed lighting, slow ceiling fans, a jukebox with "As Time Goes By" and Edith Piaf along with the usual pop. Drinks are more expensive--a must for social climbers--but the wai9ters are very friendly and the atmosphere homey and comfortable...
...Spanish title of Donoso's novel, Casa de Campo,is also the name of a park just outside of Madrid Donoso clearly does not intend the park's name as the title's only significance like other things in the book, however, the title points out ward and suggests a similarity between the Ventures' escape from the capital city and excursions in Casa de Campo. It suggests that the Venturas never left the city even in their isolation. The title's anchor in Madrid conveys the paradox of Donoso's pretended vacuum and stands as a monument...