Word: pola
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Carmen A. Pola, a former advisor to BostonMayor Ray Flynn, says, "Remigio is the type ofperson that society needs, in particular theSpanish community. He has a clear understanding ofproblems in out society, especially poverty." Shecredits Cruz with "making young people,particularly poor Hispanic youngsters, feel thatanything is possible...
...industry's mantle spread around the world, new immigrant stars filled important character niches. The Latin lover: Rudolph Valentino (Italy); the noble warlord: Sessue Hayakawa (Japan); the tragic heroine: Pola Negri (Poland); the vamp goddess: Greta Garbo (Sweden). Nor was the flood stanched with the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Hollywood saw the Babel of exotic accents as one more earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman...
When Crimson reporter Sonya C. Laurence dialed Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn's director of Constituent Affairs, Carmen A. Pola, she was more than a little surprised to have her call answered not by Pola, but by Mayor Flynn himself. Flynn was quite helpful, according to Laurence, and he even agreed to leave a message for the busy and unreachable bureaucrat...
...political influence," says Carmen A. Pola, director of the mayor's office of constituent services. "I think that he could play a major leadership role both inside and outside the Church," she adds...
Mission Hill Hispanic leader Carmen Pola said at the meeting that Flynn's work on the hill's main housing project, which is 70 percent Hispanic, won her support, adding. "If he was racist none of us would support...