Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first see Karl (Gary Busey) a farm-boy, stumbling across the desert clumsily, trying to escape the wrath of his father-in-law, whose son he accidentally killed. There he meets the legendary figure known as Barbarosa (Willie Nelson), who is himself being pursued by his own Mexican in-laws the Zabala family--because of a long standing, yet obscurely motivated vendetta...
...Mexican-American electorate, which has doubled since 1976, helped to swing the election. Clements made much of White's opposition to the 1965 Voting Rights Act extension, and referred to himself as un hombre de palabra (a man of his word). White countered with slogans like Ya basta . . . de los Republicanos (Enough of Republicans). Chicanos agreed: the Democrats took more than 85% of the Hispanic vote. Statewide turnout was unusually high (49%), and in some black neighborhoods in Houston, which were carried heavily by White, it approached...
...centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks who default on their payments. In his off time, he accompanies the dying Mrs. Glazer to a Mexican Laetrile clinic where Elkin's patented mixture of slapstick and " strong emotions is administered...
Last Thursday in Mexico City, where García Márquez resides in an elite suburb with his wife Mercedes, a flustered maid served coffee while the shy, stout author made plans to accept his award in Stockholm. He intends to wear the traditional Mexican guayabera, a lightweight shirt worn outside the trousers. Said he: "To avoid putting on a tuxedo, I'll stand the cold." The creator of fictional ice, amnesia and ascending bedsheets could hardly do otherwise...
...Laureate Garcia Robles, on the other hand, has pursued a low-profile path to the same ends. A diminutive, soft-spoken Mexican career diplomat, Garcia Robles joined his country's foreign service in 1939 (his first posting: Sweden). Involved in the San Francisco Conference of 1945 that founded the U.N., he filled a variety of posts before presiding in 1965 over the first Latin American convention, held in Mexico City, on the dangers of nuclear proliferation. Two years later, he proudly oversaw the signing of the Tlatelolco Treaty. (That document, however, still has only symbolic significance: the two countries...