Word: domingos
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Most of the theaters, shopping plazas and historic sites-including monuments to revolutionary hero Jose de San Martin and writer-president Domingo Sarmiento--are within walking distance of the city's center...
Each of the seven different narrators who describe these two entities adheres to one particular image of the child; consequently, the different versions of the myth contradict each other. The most common descriptive voices belong to the Domingo family, and the narrative thread of the novel is Johnny Domingo. While Domingo always serves as audience to all versions of the myth, he also aids the reader with his own interpretation...
...voice of the ghost of Magdalena, one of the seven narrators, acts as the foundation of Divina Trace. Magdalena Divina, her memory residing in a holy statue of a black madonna, tells her version of the legend to Johnny Domingo. During her account, another narrator intervenes and takes over the story...
...classical recordings rarely garner the type of hype that the record industry lavishes on more popular and profitable items, but there are exceptions. Advertisements for the "Three Tenors" concert (with Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras) appeared in such unlikely places as subway stations, illustrating the successful use of a formula that was first demonstrated by the soundtrack from Amadeus. It goes like this: In order to guarantee a popular success with a classical recording, bring together popular (and relatively well-known) music, big names and a good pretext, such as a movie or a memorable concert...
Planned more than a century ago as a tribute to the landfall of Christopher Columbus in 1492, a five-story lighthouse now, finally, thrusts itself into the sky over Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Aggressively supported by the nation's octogenarian President Joaquin Balaguer, the project will cost, when all the finishing touches are completed, about $20 million. It will also, when the switch is pulled, put on quite a show: 147 giant beams projecting a cross of light 3,000 ft. into the Caribbean night. The lighthouse comes equipped with its own power generators, which was a prudent...