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Exam question: What does Spain produce? Well, brave bulls, rough red wine, the only true sherry, paellas, painters, poets, playwrights, flamenco dancers, gypsies, guitarists, terrorists, royalists, fascists. That answer rates 9.5 on the bromide scale. The most spectacular product of Spain, in fact, is and always has been the manic-romantic, the legion of brillants who have ranged from the old salt who convinced the Spanish that he had discovered a passage to India to the faded "conquistador" who tilted at windmills. Not quite in their league, but certainly in the milieu, is Luis Cabrillo, a young disenchanted adventurer...
Summer is every man a king and every woman a queen. Maria Elizabeth Julio was named Miss Italian Festival in Baltimore and headed for the pizza stand; Sally Stallings was Queen of the Old Spanish Days Fiesta parade in Santa Barbara, Calif., and rode among 150 floats and strutting flamenco dancers...
...least the words looked familiar. But the oral comprehension was another matter. "Pedro--" began the woman on the tape, promisingly. "Yatakatakatakatakatakatakatakataka." "Dios mio!" came the response. "Yatakatakatakatakatakataka." I gave up after the second line and just laughed. I was not alone. Some guy got up and did the flamenco. My score on the test was 415, which, by the law of averages, I would have scored on the placement test in Urdu...
...Local flamenco dancers fill up across from the K-school at La Pinata, where the food runs less than a dollar per gallon...
Marlo Escudero--flamenco guitar, Gardner Museum...