Word: julio
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Artie Shaughnessy, played by Julio Vincent Gambuto '00, bounds onto the curtained stage and begins a comical late-night music gig amid catcalls from the audience. After he runs off and the lights go out the audience sits back and relaxes, anticipating a witty comedy and moreof Gambuto's artfully-delivered one-liners. So begins The House of Blue Leaves, the creation of a fast-paced world of kooky reality in which laughter covers the dark edge upon which the characters teeter. The protagonist, an aspiring musician named Artie, seems real enough at the start with his pathetic late-night...
...Julio ("Chino") Mercado, the narrator of Ernesto Quinonez's fine debut novel, Bodega Dreams (Vintage Books; 213 pages, $12), knows the projects of Spanish Harlem in New York City. So he also knows that the best way to survive them is to get out. He and his pregnant wife Blanca are putting themselves through college at night. Their goals are the usual ones: to get nice jobs, to buy a house...
...sale," says Christopher Palmer, publisher of the online magazine Tequila Fancy. International customers were soon savoring formerly inaccessible brands like Centinela, Lapiz and Gran Centenario. A string of new multinational players in the market also helped. Over the past five years, giants like Brown-Forman and Seagram (Tequila Don Julio) and powerhouses Diageo (Cuervo's distributor) and Allied Domecq (Sauza's) have bought tequila distilleries in Mexico or gone into partnerships there in order to create new products. Tequila's cachet has also attracted such smaller spiritmakers as Pernod Ricard, which bought Mexico's boutique Tequila Viuda de Romero...
...pages? How does a busy woman like Bridget find time to write almost a page a day?). And even fans will notice that the plots of the novel don't tie together as neatly as its predecessor. Whereas the relationship between Bridget's mother and her unctuous Portuguese suitor Julio was the plot lynchpin of the first novel, this time around the mother's adoption of Wellington, a Kikuyu who is much wiser than the muddle-headed, annoying mother, seems superfluous, included merely for the humorous possibilities. Moreover, the diary's focus on 1997, complete with references to the election...