Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOCKWOOD, the photojournalist who did interview books with Fidel Castro and Eldridge Cleaver, will run a benefit show at the Harvard Square Theatre this Sunday at 12:30 p.m. Proceeds go to a worthy cause, the Cuban Study Center, which will help support such beloved leftist writers as Lockwood, Jason Epstein, Sal Landau, and Jose Yglesias. The film is Tomas G. Alea's Memories of Under development. the first post Revolutionary Cuban dramatic feature to be shown in this country...
...those who want to see Cuba today, Memories does contain pictures and sounds recorded in 1966-67. If you have need for crude "documentary" evidence, I can assure you that you will see and hear Cuban faces and voices. But if you want some kind of understanding -of Cuba, of post-revolutionary societies, of women and men within them, or even of capitalism and yourself-this film won't help...
...black struggle, nor like the European immigrants' nor even like those of Latin America, though it has gained inspiration from all of them. In short, it is adhering to the principle verbalized by Regis Debray in Strategy for Revolution: Essays on Latin America. After discussing some aspects of the Cuban Revolution. Debray states that he "believes that the admirable influence of the revolution has been a success and that it can be summed up in the following way: each must choose his own road according to his own conditions." The Chicano is in the process of choosing his road...
...sell under private labels. Prices of Suave products, most made of vinyl, range between $1.60 and $6 and are easily competitive with imports. The firm manages this by using only the most modern and efficient equipment and paying its nearly 2,000 workers (all but 25 of them Cubans) an average of $2.30 per hour v. the $2.80 averaged by shoe workers in Massachusetts. Suave also benefits from its highly motivated salesmen, many of them also Cuban. "We look for young, hungry men who want to make money," says President Egozi, who insists that a heavy accent...
Egozi, now 38, lives in a $200,000 house fronting on Skylake outside of Miami and often spends weekends with his wife and three children horseback riding around his 25-acre ranch in Fort Lauderdale. He broods about his early days in the U.S., when to be a Cuban "was a very degrading thing," and finds irony in the fact that he is now welcome anywhere. "It doesn't matter what you are if you have money," he says. Egozi should know. He reckons his personal wealth at about...