Word: manana
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...Sailor has the same easy-sippin' mix as the Margaritaville music on his last album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. The title cut, for instance: "The sea's in my veins, my tradition remains, I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer." Or the song "Manana...
...those gags! The political jokes ("I greatly appreciate music. You know that's one place I'm like Harry Truman--I used to play the Piano myself.") the bilingual wisecracks ("We have to quit thinking of Latin America in terms of siestas, manana, Rumba, Samba, and Cha-Cha-Cha." Cha-Cha-Cha!), the self-deprecating quips ("I'm a dropout from the Electrol College. I flunked debating...
FORT WORTH, Casa Manana: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; by Plautus out of Minsky...
...Spanish Pavilion, after an early attack of manana, finally got itself dedicated and hung its old masters-notably Goya's two mayas, clothed and naked-which had been kept crated until the air conditioning was fully functioning to duplicate the exceptionally dry air of Madrid in the exceptionally wet spring air of New York. Even before the dedication, the Spanish had put on a handsome fashion show of seven Spanish designers. Displayed by an armada of imported Spanish beauties, the dresses were themselves spectacular enough-glinting with beads, swirling with bravura-to make many an observer feel that...
...wants everything his own way, and when he can't have it he sulks and drinks and insults everybody in sight. The other (Leslie Caron) is a loyal, long-suffering, sweet little wife who is pitied by everybody-especially herself. Dreary little people in a dreary little manana republic; sick of the heat, sick of the natives, sick of themselves; each blaming the other for the mess they are in, both too weak and lazy to clean up or clear...