Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to have some more," says Fernando Martinez, a Mexican who works as a restaurant chef in Washington but snacks off-hours on miniportions of mussels in vinaigrette sauce, meat-filled puff pastries, and avocado stuffed with shrimp at El Bodegon, a Spanish restaurant in the capital. Jose Lopez, one of the owners of the successful El Bodegon, reports that tapas got off to a slow start in % Washington three years ago. "The biggest problem was people not knowing about tapas," he says...
...wimps (underclassmen) to get in. This year one room was guarded by a computer that had to be addressed in several languages before the door could be opened. "I guess it sounds like a strange way to have fun," says Ky-Anh Phan, 19, a sophomore from San Jose, "but building strange things is what this place is all about...
...also been thinking long and hard about public art, which cubism never pretended to be. He was already a celebrity in Mexico. When Alvaro Obregon swept into office as President, Rivera found he had an enthusiast in the Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, who invited him back to Mexico to take part in a huge program of public painting. In Mexico and Russia, unlike most of the early 20th century world, a fresco could still be counted on for political impact. Mexico had a huge illiterate population, used to learning doctrine by looking at images. Painting had little...
After high school, Ueberroth paid his way through San Jose State, working at numerous odd jobs, including selling women's shoes and working on a chicken farm. He graduated in 1959 with a business degree, got married, and, unable to land a job with several large companies, he moved to Hawaii to begin work for a small airline that operated between California and Hawaii...
...this way, he is a subtler find than fellow Phenoms Jose Canseco of Oakland and Pete Incaviglia of Texas, whose muscles show. "I didn't expect to hit 15 the whole year," Joyner admits. "I never think about hitting a home run. Sometimes I sit down, and it doesn't feel like I've ever hit one. I'm in dreamland. Because I've been playing baseball for a year straight now, I'm hard-pressed to think where everything started and stopped. But I've kept a fairly even keel, I hope, thanks to my family...