Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director Paul Mazursky and star Richard Dreyfuss worked together in Beverly Hills, while Parador's other stars, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, appeared together in Spider Woman. Also, Parador, like Beverly Hills, means to be a comedy of social and cultural clashes, while using the political instability of a Latin American dictatorship as a backdrop, like Spider Woman...
...idea of an actor hoodwinking an entire country is not supposed to invite more than a superficial parallel with the Reagan administration, any more than Parador is supposed to resemble a real Latin American country. Parador is an American tourist's fantasyland, where everyone speaks English, where drinks are large, cheap and potent and where the annual Mardi Gras-like carnival is headlined by Sammy Davis...
Despite its potential for satire, Moon Over Parador doesn't leave you with any significant social statement about Latin American politics. Still, it is funny enough not to disappoint you or leave you with anything to moon over...
...pickets took place in front of the Harrington and Longfellow schools as well as Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, according to Orben's telephone message. The CTA also aired radio commercials on at least six stations, according to Orben's answering machine...
...international assault on Latin America's illicit drug industry was unprecedented. In Operation Snowcap, made public only when it ended last week, antidrug forces from 30 nations cooperated for 28 days in a blitz on the dope trade -- dynamiting airstrips, assaulting coca-processing operations, searching travelers. Among the participating nations were Belgium, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Britain, the U.S. and Venezuela. Results: 11 tons of cocaine and 244 tons of marijuana seized; 114 guns, 122 boats, planes and vehicles confiscated; 22 cocaine labs destroyed; and 1,267 arrests made. Yet no major kingpins were nailed. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh applauded...