Word: posada
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...story houses. This week the mine was silent as the miners observed the holidays. But on Christmas Eve, they would troop back to the hillside entrances with their families, and plod 2,600 ft. down into the mountain. There, for the first time, they were to hear Father Luis Posada, mine chaplain, say Midnight Mass in the great underground church, only one of its kind in the world, which the miners carved out of solid salt rock...
...legal National Lottery (government percentage: 19%) and the well-taxed (15%) wagers on the jai alai games at the vast downtown Frontón, citizens of Mexico City not tony enough for brincos find plenty of ways to risk their money. Some go to the cockfights at the Posada de los Cuatro Caminos, just outside the Federal District limits, where pesos change hands with every spur-thrust. Thousands play la bolita, an illegal policy game paying off 80 t01 on the last two numbers of the regular winning National Lottery ticket. In the bullfight fans' cafés such...
Rivera got into the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts when he was only eleven, but his real teacher was José Posada, the Daumier of Mexico, whose printmaking shop stood near the school. "I used to peer into his window every evening," says Rivera, "until at last he invited me inside. We talked together for seven years, about politics and art. He taught me the connection between art and life; that you can't express what you don't feel...
...peaches. The sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel, not just intellectual constructions." Rivera was coming back to the maxims of his first teacher, old José Posada...
Tequila & Sparklers. On Christmas Eve, after eight days of posadas, Mexico has its biggest feast of the year. Like the posada, this follows tradition. There is the Christmas salad-oranges, peanuts, lemons, beets, apples, almonds, and anything else at hand-which the father of the family always makes. Tequila is on the table, and in more prosperous homes wine and sometimes champagne. There are sparklers, like the ones in the U.S. on the Fourth of July. Not even the children go to bed, for in Mexico on Christmas Eve nobody sleeps...