Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...descended from the noble buddy system of American literature. Exotically paired males, like Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook, Ishmael and Queequeg, Huck and Jim, fling themselves at the wilderness and sooner or later paddle into the mainstream. McCrae and Call join the mythic flow by stealing a herd of Mexican cattle and driving them from Texas to Montana. Why leave semiretirement and undertake a journey better suited for younger men? One answer is that Lonesome Dove would be a dull book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT...
...ours. It was a failure to vote against that bad war and so was a silent vote that condoned it. Any act of respect by Harvard to "the office of the President," while Reagan holds it, would be just as political. One hundred thirty-seven years ago, during the Mexican War, one good Harvard graduate wrote: "How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." What would Thoreau have said it Harvard had invited President Polk to such an attain as the 350th anniversary celebration...
...Angeles. His Oscars were for wartime documentaries: Moscow Strikes Back (1942) and The House I Live In (1945); among his other notable screenplays were This Gun for Hire (1942) and The Naked City (1948). "To understand all," he once said of the blacklist and his years of Mexican exile and pseudonymous work, "is not to forgive...
...Julia Child Creative Cuisine Prize is awarded with lip-smacking gratitude to Myra Mayman at Cabot House. Each Friday afternoon Mayman and her gastronomic aide-de-camp Christine King prepare a different set of ethnic appetizers. Last week's cornucopia was Mexican, including throat-clearing Margaritas, spicy nachos, and the best guaeamole outside of the San Fernando Valley. Mayman flexes her Office of the Arts muscle to bring over a guest artist or performing talent each week, providing a serious threat to A-World's dominance of the Art-with-a-capital-A scene. Nevertheless, the parties are frequented mostly...
...buccaneer type who wants nothing more than a toreador suit. Devastatingly good looking and basically warm-hearted, he at least posesses a modicum of stability. His brother Jem, however, is a changeling--half monk, half libertine, vacillating wildly between desperate passion and asceticism. The favoured child of an impressive Mexican woman who died when he was younger and nearly dragged him with her, Jem is, to put it mildly, disturbed. Jezebel, despite being uprooted and a bit lost herself, remains probably the most sane of the trio. She spends the summer with her father in England only to become entangled...