Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour's ride from downtown Shanghai is a teeming farm called the Hsinching People's Commune. It is a model establishment, or it would not be on the F.F. itinerary. As the buses arrive, all hands of all ages are out to greet them, all smiling and hand-clapping (it beats weeding). The F.F.s, after Ni haos! and handshakes, are waved toward basins of cool water and stacks of fresh towels. Then they troop in for the Brief Introduction, the ritualistic prelude to any tourist attraction...
...weekends, downtown Los Angeles' Broadway is a teeming mass of Hispanic shoppers. Record-store loudspeakers blare Mexican hits: Juro que Nunca Volveré (I Swear I'll Never Return), Mi Fracaso (My Downfall). The Orpheum Theater, where Al Jolson once sang in blackface, screens Spanish-language dubbings of anglo hits. An archipelago of taco and burrito carts dots the street. Stores and merchandise stands tout their wares: vestidos, tocadiscos, muebles (clothing, phonographs, furniture). Farther east, on Whittier Boulevard, young Hispanics express themselves with a unique form of Saturday night fever known as "low riding"-cruising in ornately decorated...
...Spanish-speaking presence in sections of downtown Los Angeles is so pervasive that other Angelenos sometimes refer to the area, with an edge in their voices, as "Baja Hollywood." Yet a strong Hispanic flavor is hardly surprising in a city that was founded in 1781 as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula. At a conservative estimate, some 1.6 million of the metropolitan area's 7 million residents are Hispanics, overwhelmingly of Mexican descent. That makes Los Angeles a magnet for the estimated 7 million legally resident Hispanics scattered across...
HOBBIES: Growing potatoes and "cruising" downtown Ithaca in a tractor "just for kicks...
...tough one to call between two offensive powerhouses. Penn has upset the Bruins in this game the last two years, but, somehow, I just don't see Brown being eliminated from the Ivy race this early in the year. And besides, I'm SURE there's somebody in downtown Providence who would beat me up if I picked Penn. Uh-huh. Brown 28, Penn...