Word: mango
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...reading by Sonali Bose '98, excerpted from the upcoming compilation Conversations with the New Race on the Block and acted out silently by cast members. Several of Bose's pieces, such as "Tobacco" and "Gunda" ("Low-life"), are reminiscent of Sandra Cisneros' short prose poems in The House on Mango Street in their attempt to give an impressionistic shape to events as perceived through the eyes of a member of a culture still unfamiliar to most Americans...
...block from San Francisco Bay, Allende surrounds herself with mementos: Paula's baby shoes, encased in copper; photographs of her, framed in silver; the earthen jar that contains Paula's ashes; and a letter Paula wrote during her honeymoon, foreseeing her own death. Petite and intense, Allende pours mango tea by a vase of wildflowers in the sunlit room. "All my books come from deep emotion," she says. "They are not born in my mind, they gestate in my womb." Her eyes welling with tears, she spreads across the table the handcrafted cards she uses to respond to a flood...
...contain or adequately characterize The Perez Family in a plot summary. For, writer Robin Swicord (Little Women) and director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) have crammed their film to bursting with wayward characters and strangely arresting incongruities. Nair has called the movie "an overripe mango," and that's as good a metaphor as any for a juicy, messy, exotic and utterly delicious treat...
...seen in decades. Ships from U.S. ports arrive daily, and airplanes disgorge businessmen, missionaries and a small army of development experts $ who, it is hoped, will eventually disburse more than some $645 million in financial aid from international lenders. The capital's sidewalks are bristling with vendors. Mango growers have sold $600,000 worth of fruit abroad, and orange peels destined to flavor Grand Marnier are again drying in the midday...
...much to Netzarim, the Jewish settlement in the heart of the Gaza Strip. Amid a neat grid of white cottages, a few patches of grass struggle against the native sand. There is a cluster of trailer homes, some chicken yards, hothouses for lettuce, and a patch of mango trees. Netzarim is a tiny community of just 32 families -- 180 people -- but it is the cause of great commotion. As the most vulnerable of the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, Netzarim and the Israeli army contingent that guards it have become favorite targets for Palestinian militants. Over the past...