Word: chico
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fratricidal political atmosphere. Cristiani's ruling ARENA party, founded in 1981 by right-wing extremists, has moved closer to the center since he took office in 1989. Unfortunately, the party has few leaders suited to take the President's place when his term expires in 1994. Vice President Francisco ("Chico") Merino has aligned himself with ex-Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, ARENA's infamous far-right patriarch. D'Aubuisson, 48, implicated in numerous human-rights abuses, has terminal cancer...
...drive to the beach or mountains; and, perhaps most important of all, what economist Steven Thompson, director of the Assembly Office of Research in Sacramento, describes as "a little house in the suburbs with a barbecue and -- if you make it -- a swimming pool." But these days, from Chico in the north to Chula Vista in the south, Californians are anxiously debating whether that straightforward dream can be attained or should even be pursued...
...keep the series alive. One possibility: a new male lead, perhaps two-time star Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons and Amen), who already has a development deal with CBS. The strategy is risky. After the suicide of comedian Freddie Prinze in 1977 NBC replaced him with a child actor in Chico and the Man, and the network hit swiftly became an also...
...repairing and redeeming the American landscape. So far the couple and their colleagues have proposed, at the behest of developers, more than 30 new towns ranging from Tannin, a 70-acre hamlet in Alabama, to Nance Canyon, a 3,050-acre, 5,250-unit New Age town near Chico, Calif. Half a dozen such towns are already under construction. Seaside, their widely publicized prototype town in northern Florida, is more than half built. At Kentlands, a new town on the edge of Maryland suburbia outside Washington, the first families have just moved in, and vacant lots are selling despite...
Biggest Turkey TV's most obnoxious chef is a would-be comic whose series appears on the Discovery Channel. Pasquale Carpino of Pasquale's Kitchen Express yowls snatches of operatic arias as he demolishes eggplants and describes his recipes in a tootsie-frootsie accent that was barely funny when Chico Marx used...