Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the American people are largely oblivious to what is going on over there. I guess as long as the guard towers don't appear on the Canadian and Mexican borders, we'll keep talking about detente...
...destroyed California's illusion of invincibility. Weaned on the high-test economy of the '60s, the state sputtered and wheezed as it geared down to the era of limits. It seemed to have more than its share of problems. Compton's street gangs and the Mexican mafia of East Los Angeles were just as bad as their counterparts back East. Men committed to zero defects and preoccupied with cosmic realities began to wonder if air you could taste was fit to breathe. California was distinctive no longer. The state that waltzed through the '60s now faced...
Closer, cheaper and safer than the sleazy Mexican border town are three of the best theme parks in the West. When Walt Disney opened Disneyland at Anaheim in 1955, the idea was that his fantasyland would be "a travel destination" at which visitors would spend whole weekends or vacations. Many families still do, but Disneyland, like Florida's Disney World, has become a focal point from which holidaymakers can radiate out to other parks, beaches, authentic historical scenes and myriad recreations ranging from surfing and sailing to deep-sea fishing and ballooning. Thus a family with a week...
...they say in Southern California, one must go with the flow. In Slow Days, Fast Company that flow is generated by Babitz's fresh, distinctive sense of place: "Outside it's turned pink and the jacaranda tree is magenta, and next door the fourteen-year-old Mexican girl has finished her paper route and swung her long California-bred legs off her bike and now throws a Frisbee at her brother's head, expertly...
...illegal activities of any consequence." He spends much of his time traveling by private jet on Mob business in California, where he has helped Fratianno and Rizzitello guide new Mob investments in narcotics trafficking, bookmaking, loan-sharking and extortion from legitimate businessmen as well as from illegal Mexican immigrants who work in garment-manufacturing firms owned by the mobsters. The Eastern and Midwestern hoodlums have run into stiff competition from entrenched indigenous gangs in at least one field?narcotics. This is still largely in the hands of the so-called Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia, the Black Guerrilla Army...