Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign involvements, especially in Latin America, he rejects Reagan's "lone cowboy" approach and prefers to act in concert with allies and comply with international...
...spirited sounds and shapes, the flavors and flirtations of Hispanic style. The new influence is changing the way the country eats, dresses, dances, plays, ) learns -- the way it lives. Look around. See the special lightning, the distinctive gravity, the portable wit, the personal spin. In theater and films, Latin playwrights and directors supply a fresh vision and voice. The names on the marquee have a Spanish ring: Andy Garcia, Maria Conchita Alonso, the inspirational actor Edward James Olmos. In fashion and design, painting and architecture, critics laud the Latino artists whose work owes its strength to aesthetic merit, not simply...
...Fefu and Her Friends), Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit, I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges) and the late Miguel Pinero (Short Eyes). Four younger writers particularly stand out. They happen to reflect the major ethnic subdivisions within the Hispanic community -- Cuban exile, Chicano, Puerto Rican and Latin American emigre -- and to embrace literary styles ranging from political invective to lyrical recollection. What distinguishes them, however, is not such representative qualities but a memorable personal vision...
...Like the black writers of a generation ago, the Hispanics seem to be moving beyond an initial preoccupation with anger, self-pity and reductionist politics toward a stage literature that communicates rather than confronts, that reaches for universality and yet portrays people individually. Enriching the American dramatic vocabulary with Latin techniques and traditions, these new playwrights also emulate their U.S. forebears: as in the heritage stretching from O'Neill and Tennessee Williams to Sam Shepard and August Wilson, the overwhelming concern is the family, and the perpetual battleground is the hearth. The nominal topic of debate may be a fighting...
...these four playwrights, Sanchez-Scott is closest to the Latin American tradition of "magic realism," in which visionary or hallucinatory elements coexist with a gritty naturalism much as they do in the fiction of Borges and Garcia Marquez. In the play on which her reputation rests, Roosters, what seems a straightforward depiction of the life of farmhands gives way to mysterious visitations, symbolic cockfights enacted by dancers, virginal girls wearing wings, archetypal confrontations between father...