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...Cohen and Bleichmar are a pleasure to watch, exhibiting a flair for ribaldry and broad comedy. Cohen has a marvelous protean quality which is ideal for a production like this, where the actors have to play multiple roles. Bleichmar revels in the characters she plays, from Mr. Herbert the gringo philanthropist to Tobias' wife Clotilde, and she can incite giggles just by the way she pronounces the word "rabbits...
...MOST POTENT SYMBOL YET OF THE new economic order being ushered in by the North American Free Trade Agreement: Anheuser-Busch, makers of Budweiser, the basic American workingman's beer, has agreed to buy 18% of the Mexican maker of Corona, favored foam of gringo yuppiedom. Anheuser-Busch, the St. Louis-based sultan of suds, has paid $477 million for nearly a fifth of Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V., the king of beers south of the border. The deal, which could be the first step toward an even greater presence in the Modelo empire, is Anheuser-Busch's first major...
...Gringolandia ("Land of the Gringo") section contains some of the most entertaining and touching stories. Piri Thomas recounts how he earned respect growing up where "sometimes you don't fit in. Like if you're Puerto Rican on an Italian block." Thomas gritty memoir recalls a childhood in the Bronx streets looking out for a "bunch of hungry alley cats that could get to their mouse anytime they wanted," "Mr. Mendelsohn" by Nicholasa Mohr recounts the story of the Suarez family through the eyes of a Jewish man watching his neighborhood turn into a Puerto Rican enclave. Nash Candelaria recounts...
...himself as an example and proof of this. He is a Mexican American with an "Italian suit, an American voice and an Indian face," a Catholic homosexual who was taught by Irish nuns in a parochial school in Northern California, a scholar of English literature whose Spanish retains a gringo accent. He steadfastly refuses to give any of these identities primacy, to allow any one gloss on his thought...
...cloudless Mexican morning, Carlos Fuentes gazes into the gilded nave of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a colonial church built over the ruins of the massive pyramid at Cholula. As the faithful kneel in prayer, the author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz shakes his head in wonder. "It's a great example of Mexican culture -- the Indian and the Spanish religion coming together," he says. "What more perfect symbol than a pyramid topped by a church devoted to the Virgin Mary...