Word: esperanza
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...F.S.L.N. also promised to bring a better life to Nicaragua's poor, pledging dozens of reforms the Sandinistas have yet to deliver. It assured struggling mothers like 39-year-old Esperanza Lopez that her children would flourish. But her job as a maid in Chinandega pays only about $10 a month, to support three young ones. Says she: "I can only feed them once a day. Maybe it's true that we earned less under the dictatorship, but you could buy more with...
...were, as he puts it, "major" Mexican revolutionaries -- journalists who owned the leading radical newspaper in Mexico City before moving to Los Angeles. Olmos' mother Eleanor Huizar met Pedro Olmos, a young businessman, while visiting Mexico City. The couple married and raised three children: Peter, now 44, Edward and Esperanza...
...next day, the Iraqis retaliated by attacking two tankers in the vicinity of Kharg Island. Both the Greek-owned Esperanza No. 2 and the Iranian-owned Tabriz were set ablaze. The ships were in the area where the Al Ahood, hit a week earlier, was still floundering and in danger of breaking up. Later that day, a Kuwaiti tanker, the Bahrah, was struck by a rocket after being circled by two unidentified planes. One aircraft returned to fire a second rocket, but the ship was able to continue to a Kuwaiti port. The Kuwaiti Cabinet subsequently issued a statement blaming...
...sparks that best bring out the play's potential freshness are the performances of two young lovers, Esperanza (Cynthia McVay) and Moncho (Stephen Harrison), who manage to escape the symbols. McVay combines a casual beauty with an easy naturalness perfectly suited to her role as an unbridled woman caught up in the revolution. The vagabond spirit of Harrison's Moncho provides her worthy accompaniment. Whether strumming a love song or angrily debating with his leader Rodrigo, Moncho captures the excitement the play cries...
Aging and raging, he began to take on all enemies in the same spirit: Commies, Injuns, wrongos, Mexicans ? and his wife Esperanza. "Our marriage was like shaking two volatile chemicals in a jar," he said. She recalled the night he dragged her around by her hair. He countered with a claim that when he was on location she had a house guest named Nicky Hilton. During the divorce proceedings, Wayne uttered an aside that could have come from one of his early oaters: "I deeply regret that I'll hafta sling...