Word: delia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delia S.A. de C.V., one of Felix Gallardo's numerous businesses, was surrounded by soldiers, and truckloads of soldiers patrolled Culiacan's streets all day Sunday...
...Delia Ruby Graff (Myra) and Douglas McPeek (David Bliss) hit their high points in an intimate love scene in the second act. This small moment is over-shadowed by their otherwise lackluster performances...
...1930s, however, cigar-factory owners began barring the lectores from the premises for reading subversive materials. Long strikes by active new unions did little to bring the lectores back or to stop the inevitable progression toward mechanization. "One machine took care of a whole row of twelve people," says Delia De Caprio, owner of Joe Faedo's bakery. Her parents were both cigar workers. The Depression finished off what the unions and machines started...
SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink...
...Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) -- the ghosts of the house's previous owners, who died a while back and now reside in the attic. This nice postmortem couple is no happier than Lydia (Winona Ryder) to be trapped here with trendy Charles (Jeffrey Jones) and the unspeakable Delia (Catherine O'Hara). So the Maitlands have been trying to scare the Deetzes away. Sorry, kids. Go ahead and haunt these New Age parvenus; they'll just invite their friends to enjoy the kicky spectacle. The Maitlands need some serious help, perhaps from the lecherous demon (Michael Keaton) who pesters...