Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intends to base it on the fake "autobiography" of Hughes that Writer Clifford Irving foisted on LIFE and McGraw-Hill before he was jailed for fraud. Hughes' former chef, Garry Reich, said that he was ready to sell the recipe for the fudge that Howard savored. Meanwhile, the Mexican authorities seemed piqued that Hughes had got away without leaving anything valuable behind. Two days after his death, Mexican detectives raided his Jasmine suite in the Acapulco penthouse and seized three aides, who had stayed behind to pack furniture and shred files. At week's end the Mexicans charged...
...location of the Palmdale bulge has added to scientists' concern. The swelling lies along a stretch of the 600-mile San Andreas Fault, a deep fracture that runs from below the Mexican border to about 100 miles north of San Francisco, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The fault is actually the boundary of two tectonic plates, huge sections of the earth's outer layer that are sliding in opposite directions. A western sliver of California, on the Pacific plate, is moving northwest. The remainder of the state is being carried by the North American plate toward...
...famous photographs as the Blind Woman and The Family, attest to his goal of seeing "something outside myself -always. I'm not trying," he explained, "to describe an inner state of being." In the 1920s and '30s he made documentary films, including The Wave, which portrayed a Mexican fishermen's strike...
...indefinite about what he would like to do in the future, but he doesn't think he will go back to California. "The prejudice is very subtle there, especially after you acquire some education," Guizar said. He added, "It takes the form of 'I understand the problems of the Mexican-American community'--and you realize it's all bullshit...
Guizar is very active in Chicano student organizations. He is a member of La Raza, and plays Mexican folk music on WHRB every other week. Guizar said, "I think Harvard has the effect of opening people up, of making them more aware. For instance, people use the word Chicano more often here." But, he adds, while Harvard made it possible for him to escape what he calls the confines of his environment, it also sometimes makes it hard for him to retain his "cultural identity...