Word: peligrosa
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...play begins with three "sister sojourners" who set out in 1888 to explore a land "somewhere east of Australia, and west of Peru," and wind up in 1955 at a cheesy lounge called "Nicky Peligrosa's Paradise Bar and Grill." The business of the play is getting from point A to point Z, leading the audience through a bizarre and highly cerebral trek of the imagination. Ultimately, only one of the heroines decides to press on past 1955 and into the "boundless" future (which is actually the present time inhabited by the audience), but in doing so she delivers...
...TREN SUBTERRANEO ES PELIGROSA. The sign appears in nearly every subway car along New York City's 230-mile system. Literally translated from Spanish, it means, "The subterranean train track is dangerous." Though it refers to the electrified third rail and not to the dangers inside the trains, few New Yorkers would argue with its broader implications. Fewer still, however, have seen the sign recently. It has been obscured in most cars by coat after coat of indecipherable graffiti...
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