Word: pinata
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...Mexican food, Cambridge offers two extremes in price and, we think, in quality. La Pinata (Eliot St.) features amazingly low-priced standard Mexican fare; unfortunately, the folks at La Pinata just went too far in trading off quality ingredients to get low prices. They may attract a lot of newcomers with those low prices, but we doubt many return. If you feel like checking it out anyway, just remember the words of someone we passed on the restaurant's stairs--"Stay away from the refrites, they could be repeatees." We didn't heed their advice. And we paid...
...frantic hawker stands in front of each shop, jerking passersby inside with either a friendly tug or a non-stop, 78 r. p. m. sales-pitch. The walls, laden with shining guitars, pinata dolls, and obscenely fluorescent paintings of nudes and bull-fights, flash down aggressively at the customer. Mexicans sit behind the counters, talking and laughing, while middle-aged, paunchy Americans solemnly try on yard-wide sombreroes in front of the mirrors...
...Mexican-American militancy has turned up a mixed pinata of leaders, some of them significantly more strident than Chavez. In Los Angeles, 20-year-old David Sanchez is "prime minister" of the well-disciplined Brown Berets, who help keep intramural peace in the barrio and are setting up a free medical clinic. Some of them also carry machetes and talk tough about the Anglo. Reies Lopez Tijerina, 45, is trying to establish a "Free City State of San Joaquin" for Chicanos on historic Spanish land grants in New Mexico; at the moment, while his appeal on an assault conviction...
...each posada (literally, an inn) was the breaking of the piñata, a big clay pot. The piñata, filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...