Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry's mantle spread around the world, new immigrant stars filled important character niches. The Latin lover: Rudolph Valentino (Italy); the noble warlord: Sessue Hayakawa (Japan); the tragic heroine: Pola Negri (Poland); the vamp goddess: Greta Garbo (Sweden). Nor was the flood stanched with the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Hollywood saw the Babel of exotic accents as one more earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman...
...when a Chinese jeweler opened up next door and started selling identical merchandise. Just before the ill will turned physical, local Korean and Chinese merchants' associations mediated. For his part, Colombian Eddie Polafia, 14, thinks the neighborhood Koreans are unfairly antagonistic to him and the two dozen break-dancing Latin teenagers with whom he hangs out. The older Koreans, he complains, "think they control everything in Flushing." At last count they did own 120 neighborhood businesses. "Some of those store owners," Polafia says, "think we're criminals." Nor are the Hispanics always fraternal among themselves. "There isn't much...
...city's 6,500 bodegas, tiny mama-y-papa Hispanic grocery stores that sell fresh coconuts and plantains, yucca and 10-lb. bags of rice, instant masa from Venezuela or Colombian figs in syrup. Compared with the big chain stores, bodegas are expensive but friendly, loose, Latin. "If you needed five cents," says the Cuban owner of a bodega on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, "the A&P wouldn't give it to you. Here, our customers are like family...
Here, away from home. "Everyone is homesick," says Ecuadorian Howard Saltos, who owns the Discosymas record store in Jackson Heights. He has a separate section for the music of each Latin American country. Folk ballads are the best sellers. "They like to reminisce a lot," explains Saltos of his customers. Peruvian Hayly Rivera, now a naturalized American, is scornful of the "ghetto mentality" of many of her fellow Hispanics. "Their heart is back home. I hear too many people around here saying 'I don't like this, I don't like that.' " Rivera hears them complaining in Spanish, which riles...
...Coca- Cola in 1980 and chairman of the board a year later, Goizueta, 53, now runs one of the most multinational of multinational corporations; other top officers are from Argentina, Germany, Italy and Mexico. "I have always believed in being in the big pond. This is very non-Latin. I am not of the Cuban culture. I am not of the American culture. I suppose I am of the Coca- Cola culture...