Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cover: Illustration by Jose Cruz...
...Opper wonders how he got along without Surfline. A TV sports producer by profession and beach bum at heart, the Californian dials 976-SURF almost every day. For 95 cents a call, Surfline reviews beach conditions along 485 miles of coast from Santa Cruz to San Diego, updated twice daily based on reports from 100 part-time scouts. Says Opper, 39: "It's like having a direct line to King Neptune." Thanks to devoted dialers like Opper, the 3 1/2-year-old Surfline handles 1.2 million calls a year in California and has expanded to three area codes in Florida...
Bird objects that her adversaries are doing more than ringing doorbells. "They are pushing emotional buttons," she complains. Two other liberal supreme court justices, Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso, are also under conservative pressure this year, although polls show that both of them are faring better than the chief is. Bird's backers charge that many of her opponents are merely using the death-penalty issue as a red herring to achieve a new majority on the seven-judge court, one that would be more sympathetic to business interests in civil cases. The Bird majority has supported tenants and favored...
With 70 albums and 40 years in the business behind her, Cruz, seventyish, handsome, dark-skinned and wearing a snug, sequined fuchsia gown, gyrates for 90 minutes to the insistent beat of her razor-sharp backup band. At the refrain of her old favorite Canto a la Habana (Song to Havana) -- "Cuba que lindos son tus paisajes" (Cuba, what beautiful vistas you have) -- the bilingual crowd goes wild, even though most of those present have never seen Cuba and have little prospect of ever doing so. "We've never had to attract these kids. They come by themselves," says Cruz...
...longer.") The song hit the Latin, black, pop and dance charts and made a crossover star of the Cuban-born, Miami-raised Estefan, 30. "Salsa is not so ingrained in me that I can't do a legitimate pop tune or vice versa," says Estefan, who numbers both Cruz and Barbra Streisand among her influences...