Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When one-year-old Gloria Maria Fajardo and her family left Cuba for America, Cuba never really left them. Gloria's father, Jose Manuel, had been a motorcycle escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with...
Many fathers have such wishes for their little girls, but Jose Manuel's came true. Little Gloria grew up to become Gloria Estefan, the popular singing star, with 45 million albums sold worldwide. Her latest recording, Destiny, is climbing the Billboard charts, and its featured single, Reach, has been designated as the official theme song of the Atlanta Olympics (she will perform it during the closing ceremonies). But singing star or no, Estefan, a 38-year-old mother of two, still has the unused portion of her round-trip ticket from Havana to Miami. Even as she chats, relaxed...
Which is another element of her success: rather than bring the subject matter down to the audience, she is bringing the audience up to the subject matter, making it worthy of the effort it requires. Sure it's easier to identify with Gloria Steinem, who admits she once lived in an apartment for four years before realizing the oven didn't work. By making the impossible purchasable--at least in magazine and catalog form--Stewart is now simply Martha: cooking, sewing, gilding, planting, wallpapering and painting her way into every corner of your house--and your life. And Christmas...
...electrical power undoubtedly had something to do with Gloria Ward's decision to walk out of the Freemen's Montana compound last week with her husband Elwyn and her two daughters--the first people to leave the besieged ranch since April. So, probably, did the threat of violence implied by the bureau's moving three armored vehicles near the place. And so did the State of Utah's offer to drop felony charges against Ward for taking her children out of state in the midst of a custody battle. But the real credit, say federal officials, goes to Ward...
...herself into the bodies of men and women all over the world (though mostly places like Cannes and Bali) to help them realize their romantic promise. Like most of the women who populate cable erotica, Emmanuelle limns the fantasies and calls the shots. There we have it: sex goddesses Gloria Steinem can love...