Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loose. Ferrer's imagery has always been audacious and aggressive; its colors are about as subtle as the parlor of a San Juan cathouse. But its ambition is unshakable, even obsessive: to render an account of exotic travel as refracted through a Puerto Rican background and an ironic, modernist education. As his best exegete, Art Critic Carter Ratcliff, points out, "It is as a practitioner of a dramatic, restless, 'tropical' version of the sublime that Ferrer can best be understood." The work is hot salsa too, theatrical and loose. In his way, Rafi-as his buddies call...
...into a coup d'etat in order to save Spain from the 20th century." There was no indication that any such extreme solution was at hand. But the outburst of violence posed the most serious sabotage threat yet to Spain's step-by-step transition under King Juan Carlos from dictatorship to representative democracy...
...Fort Lauderdale and 23° in Homestead killed pole beans, watermelons and tomatoes. It was the worst frost in 37 years. The weather was causing even Floridians to pack up and head south. Puerto Rico reported an influx of tourists from Miami-but high winds made even San Juan's 78° seem too cool. Wise vacationers fleeing the cold headed west rather than south: Phoenix and Tucson offered their usual winter warmth, San Diego baked and beached in a delightful 86°-a high for the date...
...charter or supplemental airlines held about 10% of the total passenger travel market between Europe and the U.S.) Hotelkeepers, who stand to lose since ABC passengers are not required to buy ground accommodations, remain unperturbed. Says Arnold Orenstein, general manager of the Puerto Rico Sheraton in San Juan: "The more people travel, the better...
Puerto Rico's new Governor-elect, Carlos Romero Barceló, was startled to be summoned from a luncheon table in San Juan on the last day of the year by an urgent telephone call from the White House. The message: within an hour, President Gerald Ford would propose that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico become the U.S.'s 51st state...