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None of these is uniquely American. All take on a peculiarly American cast. "What, then," asked a visiting Frenchman, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, back in the 1780s, "is this American, this new man?" The things and images in these pages represent some of the ways in which Americans themselves have created their partial and sometimes contradictory answers to that riddle...
...particularly memorable music, a cheerfully tongue-in-cheek plot and caricatures obviously intended to be as farcical as possible. Set in the fictitious Pueblo Cito, a "backward little town" on the coast of Spain, the story revolves around three principal characters: El Bean (Tim Arnold '00), a famous matador; Hector (Elie Mystal '00), a sleazy politician; and Ana Sanchez (Tonia d'Amelio '00), a village girl whose fiance was trampled to death by bulls...
...Bean arrives at Pueblo Cito incognito the day before he is scheduled to appear at the town's annual bullfight, only to lose his memory when he is accidentally hit on the head by a pole. Finding speech notes dropped by Hector, he concludes that he is a politician and identifies himself as such. Meanwhile, Hector is mistaken by the townspeople for El Bean, and decides to use the error to his own advantage. Further complications arise when El Bean meets and falls in love with Ana, whose parents--or rather, whose mother--wish her to marry the great matador...
Sollors is primarily responsible for the upcoming visit of Hector Calderon, a prominent Chicano scholar of literature who will arrive at Harvard next semester under the ethnic studies program...
...Inactivity is a sin in boxing. Trying to come back and defy the odds is one thing. There comes a point when you realize you don't have it."--Sugar Ray Leonard after losing his comeback bout against Hector "Macho" Camacho...