Word: patrones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WELL THAT ENDS WELL, OR so the saying goes. At the end of this Shakespeare play, the girl gets the boy of her dreams, the boy is pardoned by his wealthy mother and patron king, and the ratty scoundrel becomes the dearest friend of his former foe. Sounds quite well, doesn...
...likely. The new bad feeling will complicate the bargaining and give the media yet another bonanza. Charles went about his public duties, but Diana abruptly withdrew from a fund-raising event for the British Red Cross, of which she is patron. Said Atkinson: "She is upset and decidedly...
...AWAITED A PRETRIAL HEARING IN THE murder of Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, Team Foxcatcher, the elite squad of wrestlers the millionaire supported on his Pennsylvania estate, had to balance their mourning with concerns about the future. Not only is Schultz, their friend and team leader, dead, but their patron is in jail--just as they are preparing to qualify for the Atlanta Olympics...
...commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and arsonists at night. For nonviolent recreation some play a kind of anti-Semitic Can You Top This: a gaunt Nazi nostalgist goes by the nickname "Auschwitz"; a rich Austrian patron of the movement paints a Star of David inside his toilet bowl; a distributor of Holocaust-denial material jocularly offers his customers a computer game called Concentration Camp Manager...
...world of slow learners, he takes teacher Glenn Holland through three decades of Americana, from Vietnam to 1995. Holland has a wife (Glenne Headly), a deaf son and, it turns out, a vocation for helping the young understand themselves through music. He becomes their drill sergeant, father confessor, patron saint. As the years pass, his students follow their stars while he, a frustrated composer, pours his ambition into them. It's the ambitious teacher's tragedy: your kids move on, you stay...