Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...architecture, offers Architecture as an eloquent synopsis of a distinguished career. It covers the familiar terrain of the history of Western architecture (from the Pyramids of ancient Egypt to Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C.), while incorporating a brief discussion of the architecture of pre-Colombian North America and the ancient Near East...
Just about every kind of entrepreneur has talked up the emerging opportunities in the new Eastern Europe, but now Colombia's powerful CALI DRUG CARTEL is exploring the possibilities. In October, Czechoslovak authorities seized 100 kg of cocaine hidden in a truckload of Colombian coffee. After the coffee was traced to a Polish ship that had stopped in Colombia, Polish police uncovered another 100 kg in the rest of the shipment, which was sitting in a Warsaw warehouse. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials speculate that the cartel hopes to take advantage of the legal chaos in the region to transship...
...constitution which went into effect this past summer, McGillis says now is a prime time for developing reforms for the legal system in that country. McGillis says the joint team wants to have concrete recommendations about reshaping the criminal code by next month, when the Colombian Congress will next meet...
...these cutting Hispanic stereotypes are the inventions of a writer- comedian-actor who is, perhaps surprisingly, Hispanic himself. They are characters in the play Mambo Mouth, a one-man tour de force created and performed by Colombian-born John Leguizamo, 27. Kaleidoscopic, hilarious and politically very incorrect, Mambo Mouth had a successful 35-week run off- Broadway earlier this year and won a 1991 Obie and Outer Critics Circle Award. Now a one-hour TV special based on the show will get the first of six airings on HBO this Saturday...
Although his movie career is taking off, Leguizamo is not about to stop ruffling ethnic sensitivities with his comedy. He is hard at work on a follow- up to Mambo Mouth, a one-man show in which he will play six members of a half-Dominican, half-Colombian family who are attending a wedding. "I think it could be controversial," he says with an innocent smile. Its title: Spic- o-rama