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Pero su vocaci?n para el estatus de icono no siempre ha estado a su favor. Sus opciones cinematogr?ficas no son siempre las mejores y su ramillete de novios (P. Diddy), esposos (?se acuerdan de Cris Judd?) y casi esposos (Ben Affleck) han hecho de ella un foco para los m?s diversos chistes. Pero se dice que L?pez es famosa por el humor con el que asume la discusi?n p?blica de sus curvas. (Una vez describi? su propio trasero como "un par de papas en pinchos.") Y es que L?pez habla de su cuerpo como un legado cultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jennifer L?pez | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...Jones and Bill Ayers, the group's theoretician and son of the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. Through members acting as couriers, the leaders kept in touch with a nationwide network of four-or five-member cells which were constantly on the run. Known as "foco," the Spanish word for "focus" or "center," they each operated independently, recruiting new members and carrying out bombings and other terrorist acts that had been cleared in advance by the Weather Bureau. Says Grathwohl: "We were all paranoid as hell. We never parked cars closer than two blocks from where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: CALIFORNIA'S UNDERGROUND | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...this new form of imperialist repression which has produced urban guerrilla movements. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fought their battles in the countryside, among and with peasants in predominantly rural Cuba. They established what they called a foco, a zone controlled by the revolutionaries, and expanded that area until the Batista government fled. Action in the cities, strikes and work stoppages, was merely supportive...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Urban Guerrillas Try to Fight Military Rule | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

...London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s'accose nel foco che gli affina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shantih, Shantih, Shantih | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...concert in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Elena Gerhardt will be the soloist. Tickets may be obtained at Kent's University book-store. The program will be as follows: Symphony in B minor, No. 2, Borodin Arias with Orchestra: (a) Recitative, "Il mio bel foco," and Aria "Quella flamma," Marcello (b) Aria of Paride from "Paride ed Elena," Gluck Academic Festival Overture, op. 80, Brahms Songs with Orchestra, "Morning," "Cradle Song," and "Cecilia," Strauss Rhapsody for Orchestra, "Espana," Chabrier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYMPHONY CONCERT TONIGHT | 1/16/1913 | See Source »

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