Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shake a leg with natives of outlying boroughs at the Tuxedo Ballroom (Third Ave. and 17th St.; $6 cover on weekends). At Barney Googles (225 E. 86th St.; $4 cover on weekend nights and free admission for women before 10 p.m.) you can hear both disco and highly spiced Latin music, called salsa. This blistering rhythm, Afro-Cuban in origin, is served up hottest at the Corso (205 E. 86th St.), where the dance floor gives you the chance for the sort of workout that could lead to an Olympic qualification...
There has been talk in Congress of extending to Latin America the Eastern Hemisphere ceiling of 20,000 immigrants from any one country. That would reduce the number of legal immigrants from Mexico by about two-thirds?but it might correspondingly increase the flow of illegal immigrants. There has also been talk (indeed there may soon be a law) of making it a crime to employ an illegal immigrant. That might?or might not?end the large-scale exploitation of Latin Americans. Officially, the laws governing today's immigrants proclaim that the U.S. needs only professional and highly skilled labor...
...since Latin Americans were not part of the old quota system, the ceiling of 120,000 imposes a new restriction on them, and the waiting lists now average 2 ½% years...
...taxi. Adelso, 19, operates a printing press. Diosa, 17, is a hairdresser. Zoila Maria, 15, is studying to be a nurse. The working children contribute part of their earnings to the household, and the household is buoyant. "We have had some problems here," Eloina concedes. "We know the Latin people are looked down on and discriminated against, but we get used to that, and it doesn't mean that we're unhappy here. We're very happy. Our children have a future that our country could never have given them...
...technician who scales melodic altitudes that recall the late piano genius Art Tatum. Jarrett's great gift is improvisation, which he weaves effortlessly for as much as 25 minutes at a sitting. His textures are densely contrapuntal, his melodies sometimes Chopinesque. At one moment he can sound like a Latin band on the march, at another like Copland playing variations on Elliott Carter, at still another like Scarlatti in a rhythm and blues romp...