Word: celia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what glorious music! Glimcher gathered a dream cast for his soundtrack. The performances in the movie--by Linda Rondstadt, Benny More and the legendary Tito Puente and Celia Cruz--are absolute showstoppers...
Dressed in her best housedress, Celia del Pino, a 63-year-old revolutionary, ) sits in a wicker swing "guarding the north coast of Cuba." She wears the drop pearl earrings left by her departed Spanish lover and dreams of being honored by Fidel Castro -- "El Lider himself" -- on a red velvet divan. Instead, before dawn, she sights her dead husband, iridescent blue and "taller than the palms, walking on water in his white summer suit and Panama...
...Celia's children live in cold countries. Her son has immigrated to the East bloc. Her daughter Felicia is mad. And her eldest daughter Lourdes -- a ferocious anticommunist who scans the newspapers for signs of leftist conspiracies -- owns the Yankee Doodle Bakery in Brooklyn and sells apple pie to Americans...
...imagination is ambitious. Not only does she reunite Pilar with her grandmother; she also claims her own aesthetic identity. Like a priestess, in passages of beautiful island incantation, she conjures her Cuban heritage from a land between "death and oblivion," so that she too can fasten on Abuela Celia's drop pearl earrings, sit in a wicker swing by the sea, and watch as the radiant spirits of her forefathers "stretch out a colossal hand...
French Women in the Resistance--by Celia Bertin, historian and visiting scholar, Center for European Studies., 27 Kirkland...