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...Spain!" drummer Louis Perez Jr. realized after a moment. "Wow!" Well, maybe they weren't quite so far away after all. Spiritually, Los Lobos has always dwelt midway between Los Angeles and Garcia Lorca, playing hard, dreaming darkly, finding a somber poetry on the sunny streets of the Mexican-American area the band called home. That's The Neighborhood...
...band's original members took their initial inspiration from the guitar-monster music of Jimi Hendrix and Cream, the uptown scampery of the Stones, the folk-inflected harmonies of Buffalo Springfield. Mexican music didn't count. "We didn't want to hear that when we grew up," says Perez. "We wanted to hear James Brown...
...time. They performed superb renditions of Valens' classics for the film and had a No. 1 single with the title cut, as well as a sound-track album that spent two weeks at No. 1. "That kind of eclipsed everything else we had done up to that point," says Perez. But as Hidalgo recalls, "we didn't know if we were going to be an alternative novelty thing or just a flavor of the month...
...thought to be simply grotesque -- and hugely comical. It accounts for his hair-trigger temperament. It also accounts for his melancholy, because it prevents him from speaking his love for his cousin Roxane (spunky, winsome Anne Brochet). Until, that is, she becomes enamored of handsome, tongue-tied Christian (Vincent Perez), who employs Cyrano to speak for him in letters, and from the shadows beneath her balcony...
Israel's troubles with the U.N. keep growing. Last week Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar proposed a direct Security Council role in protecting Palestinians in the occupied territories. In a report ordered by the council after 20 Arabs were killed by Israeli forces on Jerusalem's Temple Mount last month, Perez de Cuellar suggested the 164 nations that signed the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention convene to discuss ways to prevent human-rights violations in the territories, including the designation of a "protecting power" for the Palestinians...