Word: gringo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Lest we find Beck’s frequent nods to past projects too self-indulgent, he occasionally winks at the very gimmicks that first brought him fame. The over-the-top Gringo Spanglish of “Qué Onda Guero” (about as authentically Latino as Speedy Gonzalez or Taco Bell), hyperbolizes his perhaps most recognizable hit, 1993’s “Loser” with its relentless chorus of “soy un perdedor...
...this new subgenre must remain unprinted but Raeburn calls them "Ghetto Librettos." Aimed at the Spanish-speaking Pan-American underclasses living "la vida de cuadritos," or the hard life, the popularity of these books has expanded throughout the Americas. Exclusively en espanol, they remain tantalizing yet inscrutable to a gringo like me. Wondering what they were all about, with a cocked eyebrow I have thumbed through them at New York subway newsstands...
...have dirty blond hair and blue eyes and am probably about as gringo as you can get. But I do have a weakness for Mexican food. I absolutely love rice and beans and anything made with tortillas. So when I was asked to write about Real Taco, I jumped at the chance like a Mexican jumping beans jumps at whatever causes Mexican jumping beans to jump...
...growing anti-embargo movement in the U.S., where this fall Congress is expected to pass legislation allowing Americans to travel to Cuba for the first time since the embargo began in 1962. Castro knows that if Cuba's 11 million people want more eggs (and meat, chicken and rice), gringo businessmen like Kelmer want a new market - as well as the cigars and other tourist delights that have been forbidden fruit for 40 years...
...Martínez wants the book to allow Americans to see that, “even though [Mexican migrants] lack papers, they’ve suffered like other Americans.” Martínez, whom many of the Cherán residents referred to as “Gringo,” undergoes a transformation as he comes to realize the fullness of the people of Cherán’s humanity. Through Martínez’s own transformation, Americans are offered a glimpse into the lives of a migrant family. It remains to be seen...