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Aristocratic Cuban exiles puzzle over the unfamiliar foods given to them as charity by some Dallas Presbyterians. A Southwest farm worker becomes obsessed with breeding the perfect fighting cock. A Manhattan drug dealer demands that his son stay off drugs -- or, if he must get high, that he do it in his father's company, at home. A Chicano woman struggles to bring to justice the Texas police chief who murdered her common-law husband...
...Cock-fighting is a major diversion and source of income for many Filipinos. In addition to betting on the contests, many afficionados raise their own birds and invest a great deal of time, energy and money on them...
While baseball, football and basketball draw the largest crowds in the United States, cock-fighting is the sport of the masses in the Philippines...
Though the birds are the center of attraction during the day-long events, cock-fighting isn't all that goes on at a cockpit. The arena, which resembles an American boxing stadium, comes wildly alive during the five-minute betting interval before each fight. Unlike at the track, where betting simply involves buying a ticket at a window, placing a bet at a cockpit requires complicated hand signals and lots of shouting and screaming. Bets are set through informal bookies, who earn a healthy commission...
Even on the field of love, Romano lacks solemnity. In the sequence in which he begins to woo Anna, he tells a hilarious cock-and-bull story about his life. Anna asks him how he injured his leg. "Have you heard of Vesuvius?" he asks her. She has indeed heard of the volcano and knows it erupted several centuries before, so Romano changes his story to "My ancestors were from Pompeii...