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...with dirt floors. Coria's home in Tuxpan is a porticoed five-bedroom residence in the center of town, and he drives a late-model Nissan Pathfinder. In the front of his vast garden are orchids and lilies he brought from the Hamptons. In the back are groves of guava, orange and avocado. But Coria's pursuit of success has taken a heavy toll. Being just about the only Mexican gardener in the Hamptons when he first arrived meant less competition, but it also made him more homesick. He returned to Tuxpan in the winters, but "every March when...
...dead. But Marley covered it all-the sexual, the political, the spiritual-and made all of these concerns seem like the most natural topics to be singing about. He took Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...
...middle of May, a procession of Papua New Guineans, accompanied by a lone white man, was waved through on their way to a ceremony remarkable even in a land used to strange and ancient rites. Near the village of Guava, high in the mountains of central Bougainville, they gathered on a plateau. After a procession of traditional dancers swaying to the music of pan pipes, marching militia and strutting chiefs, two men mounted a stage in the center of the clearing. Bare-chested, in a floral head-dress, grass skirt and neatly cleaned tan boots was Francis Ona, leader...
...restaurant’s falafels. Though decent, the fried vegetarian dish was not nearly as good as the schwarma. Other tasty specialties are the syrupy rolled baklava fingers and the vitamin-rich “cocktail juice”—a smoothie-like blend of strawberries, guava, mango and banana...
...more propatainment. The government's Cinematography Department, first founded by Ho Chi Minh 50 years ago, announced in February that it would only release films with "popular appeal." It has already rejected eight scripts deemed boring. Not all Vietnamese-made films are political. Dang Nhat Minh's Guava Season, for example, is relatively apolitical and has received international praise. But the vast majority of scripts carry the Party message, which is perhaps why so few people pay to see them. The challenge, says Cinematography Department deputy director Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat, is finding ways to appeal to the MTV generation...