Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Strawberry and Chocolate," financed with Mexican and Spanish money, marks the return of Cuba's greatest director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, who 35 years ago produced the masterpiece "Memories of Underdevelopment...
Half a dozen dancers in brightly mottled Mexican-looking garb prance upon the scene, offering contrast to the sea of tiny black jumpsuits. A disc jockey from a local station, his instantaneous live transmission equipment strapped onto his waist, starts to harass the kids with questions about why they are here to see Michelle Pfeiffer. The cattle truck suddenly starts to back up, almost crushing the little girls. They are rounded up by their teacher, who flails her arms wildly in an attempt to rein in the class...
...approach the Hasty Pudding building, the cows, the little gymnastic girls, the dancers in traditional Mexican garb, and the cattle truck arrive first to herald the onslaught of the Woman of the Year. People are packed like sardines outside the Pudding; office workers are standing on the overhang at Holyoke Center and in the little coves above Harvard Real Estate. The sea of black-robed acrobats start to do back-flips to public accolades...
...comic relief, but advice to the newly elected class. Many Republicans have credited him with the achievement of majorities in both houses of congress for the first time in forty years. Recently, Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan called Mr. Limbaugh, hoping to persuade him to advocate the Mexican loan guarantee agreement as it faced heavy opposition by Republicans in Congress...
...what is shaping up as a major political defeat for the Mexican government, TIME Mexico reporter Ron Buchanan says, President Ernesto Zedillo this afternoon called off his hunt forrebel Zapatista leadersin the southern Chiapas state and offered peace talks to their elusive leader, the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos. Hours earlier, the governor of troubled Chiapas resigned after two months in office, bowing to rebel calls for his resignation -- a move that Buchanan says is inconceivable without orders from Zedillo's highly-centralized national government. The president's about-face comes after an ill-fated weekend effort to hunt down Zapatista leaders...