Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brisk business until a Houston television station broadcast an "exposé" about it five years ago. That shamed the state authorities into shutting it down. Last September a shrewd lawyer moved the Chicken Ranch, virtually intact, to Dallas, where it became a sort of disco restaurant serving Spanish chicken, Mexican chicken, Swiss chicken and so on. Unfortunately for him, the Chicken Ranch's customers were not really interested in those dishes, and four months later the place closed down for good...
...could not operate for more than two weeks next September. Dallas voters had not turned down a municipal-bond issue in 25 years, but after Proposition 13, they rejected six out of 17 such issues on the local ballot. Many of the "no" votes were cast in black and Mexican-American neighborhoods, which helped defeat such "elitist" proposals as a $45 million arts facility, a $14 million pedestrian walkway, and $6.8 million for convention-center improvements...
...Mexican food, Cambridge offers two extremes in price and, we think, in quality. La Pinata (Eliot St.) features amazingly low-priced standard Mexican fare; unfortunately, the folks at La Pinata just went too far in trading off quality ingredients to get low prices. They may attract a lot of newcomers with those low prices, but we doubt many return. If you feel like checking it out anyway, just remember the words of someone we passed on the restaurant's stairs--"Stay away from the refrites, they could be repeatees." We didn't heed their advice. And we paid...
Casa Mexico(on Winthrop St. off Mt. Auburn) offers excellent food at fairly dear prices; although the prices are steep by Mexican restaurant standards, Casa Mexico has to be the clear choice over La Pinata...
...into a profitable racket by developing their unique sinsemillas hybrid. The robust, waste-free strain attracts buyers willing to pay $1,600 a pound, the yield from just one well-cultivated plant. Studies show that sinsemillas weed contains five times more tetrahydrocannabinol (pot's narcotic ingredient) than the common Mexican variety. Even federal drug experts are impressed. "A good deal of expertise goes into producing that kind of plant," notes Dr. Carlton Turner, director of marijuana research for the National Institute of Drug Abuse at the University of Mississippi...