Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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
...Haiti. When he came back for them on his second voyage, they had all been killed by the Lucayo tribesmen. Archaeologists at this first Spanish settlement in the Americas have dug out some shards of Venetian glass and the bones of a 15th century pig. At Isabela in the Dominican Republic, where Columbus founded Spain's first colony on his second voyage in 1493, some evidence is turning up about the layout of the town, its artifacts (including a crucifix, possibly the first in the New World) and the colonists' interaction with the natives...
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...
Americans are not exactly innocents at the game of exploitation for the greater glory of baseball. In Sugarball (Yale University; $19.95), sociologist Alan M. Klein examines the underside of baseball in the Dominican Republic, the poverty-stricken nation famous for two cash crops: sugarcane and big- & league shortstops. Klein depicts the Dominican "academies," where teenage prospects are recruited, trained and evaluated by major-league clubs, as "the baseball counterpart of the colonial outpost, the physical embodiment overseas of the parent franchise." Even though Klein's ire is sometimes ill-concealed and the book actually contains a section called "Baseball...
Students whose ancestry is a little more complex often have a little more trouble describing themselves. Luis R. Rodriguez '94, the president of the Freshman Black Table, calls himself a Black Hispanic. A native of the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez says he prefers to be specific...