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...folks behind the reception desk at the Hotel Santa Fe speak an aggregate of 13 languages. Perhaps not all perfectly. Prince Charles has said that the universal language is bad English, and much of that can be heard at Euro Disney. "I gezz zare was a mizunderstood," apologizes a French staff member who boasts, "I speak British." Fractured franglais is also spoken here. At Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show -- a dinner theater where you eat chili and spareribs while watching Annie Oakley fire at cowbells that play La Marseillaise -- the host tells his auditors, "If yer hungry...
Worshipers are signing a petition condemning the ads, which tout the chapel and its indigenous liturgy as "just one of the many wonders . . . waiting for you," along with shopping for local weavings. Tourism official Marsha Adams acknowledges that the state should have consulted the Archdiocese of Santa Fe before launching the ad campaign, which probably will never run again. Meanwhile, in another manifestation of their protest, pilgrims say they will bar tourists from photographing their procession...
...addition, Klinkenborg will lead workshops and sponsor public discussions at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, N.M., which is a center for anthropological studies. His affiliation with the school will aid him in his research, he said...
...Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, California, the emphasis is on a mix of video and poetry called Telepoetics. At one recent event a poet in Santa Fe read a work about childbirth over telephone wires that fed into the cafe public address system. While her disembodied voice filled the room, images of her performance in New Mexico were projected onto three TV screens...
...quotes liberally), Aridjis masterfully reconstructs the life on the highways, attending to the peculiarities of every town that Cabezon visits. Following tips that he receives in the various Jewish quarters through which he passes, Cabezon traverses a Spain of madness and leprosy, wanton torture and gruesome auto-da-fe's. Ironically, Cabezon intersects the paths of Torquemada himself in Avila...