Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOCOLARE. Midst elegant accouterments -thick wine-colored carpets, long flowing cerise draperies and pillowed armchairs -rather ordinary Mexican fare (chicken, tacos and enchiladas) gains a magical allure...
...Diaz Ordaz' relations with the U.S., Washington regards him as a friend but an independent one-which is just where most other recent Mexican Presidents have stood...
...rising over an El Paso building reads "Billy Sol Estes, Importer and Exporter of Fine Products," and though Pecos Bill is listed only as an "employee" of the shop (one way to avoid a stampede of creditors), it looks as though he is starting up for real in the Mexican scrape and sombrero business. A yellow sunburst on the sign, lit with 476 flashing lights, will surround the well-known, smiling face...
FOCOLARE. Midst elegant accouterments, including thick wine-colored carpets, long, flowing cerise draperies and pillowed armchairs, rather ordinary Mexican fare (chicken, tacos and enchiladas) gains a magical allure. The mariachi music from the Cafe Alameda below and a tequila-spiked margarita add to the enchantment...
...Zapata, which had Judases aplenty and Marlon Brando on the same white horse that tourists can see in Rivera's mural in the National Palace. A novelist has more trouble than the makers of film epics. In this case, Fuentes has had to package the whole corpus of Mexican history into the dying body of a septuagenarian symbol named Artemio Cruz...