Word: fiestas
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From the age of 14 on, most Indians go on a mass toot for every festival of the Inca, Christian and national calendars. Bolivia's independence day, last Sunday, which coincides with the fiesta of the Indians' well-beloved Virgin of Copacabana, set off a Class One or seven-day bender. But even on less special occasions, the Indians' consumption of crude corn chicha reaches fabulous proportions...
...audience will jump into the ring with a homemade muleta-which up to that moment he had hidden in his pants-wave the cloth at the bull and try to take over the fight. We call him an espontdneo (spontaneous one), and we jail him: he spoils the fiesta and dangerously distracts the torero. Nehru looks like an international espont...
...entrance and box office are on Holyoke Street. Inside, in Big Tree Court, is the stage and room for 180 people. The courtyard with its high brick walls has been dressed for the occasion to give people a mood of fiesta. The floor will be white gravel...
...musical revue is neither fish nor foul. Whatever it is, Broadway has found a recipe for it. The magic formula usually calls for the following ingredients: a skit about psychoanalysis; an old-fashioned, home-town dance number; a Latin American fiesta scene; a take-off on the movies or movie heroines; and a big production number which parodies some other form of the theater. Throw in the usual mediocre songs and dance routines that don't quite come off, and you've got "Lend an Ear"-- as well as every other musical revue in sight...
...unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and accounted for last week's fiesta...