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...SITTING in a darkened living room in Arequipa, Peru, 4200 miles due south of Cambridge. Today Jenny, the oldest daughter of this Peruvian middle-class family, turns 20 years old. For her, it will be the most important day of the year. Various female cousins are stationed on couches, exchanging news of family and friends in hushed tones, with an eye cocked to the window. Lest Jenny spoil her surprise party by entering unannounced, her 16-year-old sister Lillian is poised to intercept her. But Lillian's alertness is premature. An hour passes with muffled laughter and continuous conversation...
...Tubes. Along with the Colombian cumbia rhythms popular throughout South America, teenagers buy English-language 45's by the Bee Gees and the Ohio Players. The biggest American dance is the "bump bump," pronounced "ban ban" and featured in a prominent television commercial for stylish sweaters. Many Peruvians believe it is a Peruvian dance. Teenagers are just as ready to break into a wild twist powered by Buddy Holly's "Rock Around the Clock." The Hustle, on the other hand, has a limited future in Peru. The need which the Hustle filled in the States for a dance in which...
...another "great" day eight years ago, Peru's leftist military junta took power. Shortly after this change came agrarian reform, closer Peruvian links with the Soviet Union, and the expropriation of U.S. copper and oil interests. The drop in food production after the land reform, however, sent high prices even higher, threatening the popularity of the government. As a result Juan Velasco, "the father of the Peruvian revolution," was replaced in 1975 by the less socialistic Francisco Morales. The Morales government tilts toward the center, encouraging foreign investment in Peru with better terms and repayment for expropriated holdings. Perhaps this...
While the government has swung left and right in the last eight years, the entertainment media have always been dominated by America. I did not expect to see "The Streets of San Francisco" and "Barnaby Jones" on Peruvian television, but I did--along with "The Munsters," "Maverick," and the favorite of my host family and President Ford, "Policewoman...
...series of bull's-eyes scored at 3 ft. Von Däniken's notions make use of ancient artifacts that he feels are proof of an extraterrestrial influence in history: the massive Easter Island statues, for instance, and the mysterious lines extending for miles on the Peruvian coastal plain at Nazca that he argues were landing strips for celestial spaceships. Story easily demonstrates that Von Däniken's use of details and overstretched imaginings are on a par with those of children seeing camels and puppies in cloud formations...