Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't make too much sense unless it's heard up in the mountains where it has to echo across large distances." He chose the particular monastary because he had heard about and was interested in meeting and talking to the Lama there. Though the Lama speaks no English, the two attempted to communicate philosophical concepts about music--"concepts that are vague enough in any language...
Though the Lama spoke no English, he and Rothenberg communicated through music...
...Marielito drug dealer. Despite that land of negative image, the honest Cubans working hard in their new home seem to have faith that the true picture of the Marielitos will emerge. "The spirit of the Cuban boat people has not been beaten," says Cuban Artist Alberto de Lama. "They are not an amorphous mass. They are a much suffering people, with deep fears, desperate hopes and dreams of freedom." Says Miami Assistant City Manager Cesar Odio: "The miracle is that the vast majority of Marielitos are out there working, making ends meet like anyone else." -By Susan Tifft. Reported...
...Lawrence in Arabia. A flood of more than 50 titles followed. Beginning in 1930, Thomas combined the roles of globetrotter and radio network broadcaster with élan and energy. He hunted tigers in India, covered virtually every battlefront in World War II, and in 1949 met with the Dalai Lama in Tibet. Thomas began a new radio show in 1980 called The Best Years, with features on such notable senior citizens as Bob Hope and Picasso. Said Thomas: "The best years have been all of my years...
...baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John Shields of Newton Center, Mass., built a medieval French walled city. But not even the most formidable sculptures could long resist those twin nemeses, wind and tide...