Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Henry D. Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax one year in protest of the Mexican-American War, he was thrown in jail for the night. Built around the hard fact of the great woodsman's musings to the vagrant who shares his cell, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail expands into a full picture of the man more accurate, perhaps, than the picture he gives of himself in Walden. Though the other characters in Thoreau's life, included in flashbacks, help integrate the pieces of his philosophy into the play, the strength of the Kirkland House production should...
...front of the Pru and no one seemed to realize that Bally, a short man with dark skin and a moustache, had placed second in the 81st running of this classic foot race. The Associated Press, for example, in its first bulletin decided Bally was actually Mario Cuevas, a Mexican runner who finished second in 1976. Cynics would say that to most Americans a Turk looks like a Mexican, but Bally did have a half-moon and star on his racing jersey, which is hardly a Mexican emblem. To be charitable, one could say the mistake was made because...
Nuestro (Ours) is the brainchild of Graphics Executive Daniel Lopez, 36. For nine years, he dreamed of creating a journal that would give voice to the "common joys, agonies and aspirations" of the 12 million Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Chicanos now living in the U.S. The son of a Mexican-born Chicago steelworker, Lopez won a scholarship to the University of Chicago, did graduate work at George Washington University, and spent 13 years as an ad salesman, printing executive and manager for a graphics firm. In 1972 he launched an embryo magazine company-initial assets...
...know the reason I stayed here all season With nothing to show but this brand new tattoo But it's a real beauty a Mexican cutie But how it got here I haven 't a clue...
When a skinny, secretive old man who called himself "Hal Groves" died in Mexico eight years ago, one' of literature's strangest paper chases came to an end. Services were held not for Groves but for "Traven Torsvan," a naturalized Mexican citizen. The dead man's widow acknowledged what had been widely suspected: that Torsvan, who had hidden his identity for 45 years, was indeed the reclusive novelist B. Traven. The author's broody, metallic style echoes that of Stephen Crane and Joseph Conrad. His once acclaimed books and short-story collections (The Treasure...