Word: paz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a hard day's acting, some Hollywood screen sirens like to unwind with a good book of Latin American poetry. At least Sharon Stone does. The actress is such a big fan of Octavio Paz's work, she offered to fly the Mexican poet -- in Atlanta for a gathering of Nobel Prize laureates -- to Savannah, Georgia, near where she's filming Last Dance with Rob Morrow, for lunch and a discussion of verse. After the poet's wife explained to him who Stone was, Paz told the Washington Post he was "amazed and delighted" that she knew...
...telephone never stops ringing in the shabby downtown office of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "At what hospital did this happen?" David Paz Soldan, a 26-year-old lawyer, is patiently asking the Spanish-speaking caller. A moment later he is fielding another complaint: "You say police confiscated your car because you did not have a green card...
Ambrosio Quintero, a retired factory worker married to an American, told Paz / Soldan that when he approached a Latino employee of a large Pasadena auto shop Thursday, he was told that employees were forbidden to speak Spanish with customers since 187 passed. Assistant manager Sam Gonzalez of Fedco Tire Center said the store recently declared that employees were not to speak to one another in a foreign language but that the rule does not apply to customers...
...Woodland Hills nurse was pelted with rocks and anti-Hispanic epithets at a high school she has walked by for 10 years without incident. "She was crying so hard, I couldn't get her off the phone for 20 minutes," said Paz Soldan. "She kept saying, 'This is my dream -- the land of liberty...
Stone peppered his lecture with quotes from both Nobel laureate Octavio Paz and Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder to support his premise that society is in the grips of a controlling media...