Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skinny Kid. Carew is fonder of the Medal of Honor given to him by his native Panama. Says he proudly: "I'm the only athlete ever to have won it." The feeling reveals something of his deep and continuing attachment to his Latin background. Although he has now lived in the U.S. longer than in Panama, he has not sought American citizenship. Asked by a reporter what it would be like to be an American folk hero, he replied with some astonishment: "I'm a Panamanian citizen. How can I be an American folk hero?" He explains...
...that his company is better financed, Taylor will follow the Lake Placid season with a six-week Latin American tour. Beyond that, he plans to go on quietly creating new works for his dancers. A shy, unflamboyant man, he does not fly into rages when rehearsals go badly. But once he did get off a memo that has been quoted ever since. Unable to pin down what was wrong, he did what he usually does: he made something up-in this case the word zunch. "Zunch is the magic that stays with the watchers after we are done. Zunch...
...Airport Hotel inside airport, nine others within 5 min. Amenities: ordinary. Adequate lounges for major airlines, others crowded. Five snack bars, one open 24 hr. Best restaurant: Airport Roof. Six bars, open various hours from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Standard shops brightened by fruit displays, Cuban coffee bar, Latin American specialty store. Barbershop and beauty salon. Paramedic team available 24 hr. Overall: shades of Ellis Island...
Eventually the four anti-heroes land in a remote Latin American village, where stereotypes of malnourished Indians wallow stupidly in stereotypes of squalid, muddy hovels. (The village has grown up around an American oil company's rig, it seems, and for a moment we wonder whether the film's politics will make more sense than its story. But the superficially political events--an enraged populace stones a few soldiers, for instance--are unexplained rituals, bad theater without meaning or any attempt at meaning.) An oil well catches fire and to extinguish the flames the oil company needs vast quantities...
...conflict simmered until June 29 of last year, when Lefebvre boldly ordained as priests 13 graduates of his unrecognized seminary. A month later the Vatican announced that the archbishop had been suspended from all priestly functions. Ignoring the order, Lefebvre has repeatedly celebrated his Latin Masses around Europe. His supporters have even seized a church in Paris...