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...Hummers filled with stern-faced soldiers and .50 caliber machine guns is not the post-card image tourists seek, nor a perception easily changed -unless of course you live in Rosarito. "The military has really made a huge difference," said Kanoa Biondolillo, co-owner of Baja123 real estate. "There's been a huge drop in local extortion, you don't have to bribe the police anymore if they stop you. I've never felt safer...
...only the rest of the album had as much attitude. The transition from the valkyrie voice of the first track where Merchant sings, “Soon come the day / When this tinder box / Is going to blow in your face,” to the domesticated, Mediterranean post-card song, “Motherland,” disorients the listener like holiday jet-lag. Merchant ensconces herself amongst accordions and harmlessly strummed banjos singing, “Motherland, cradle me / Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep / Keep me safe, lie with me / Lay beside me, don?...
...same show that the Cleveland woman expressed her fantasy. Marshall realized three collegiate women's dream to parachute into a land of "hunks." Avoiding airborne difficulties, Marshall instead sent them off to Mexico with the hope that they'd find a couple of men. He gave them a post-card...
...cities, qua qua. And there to help them is American business, working and playing to build a strong, free Western Hemisphere. The whole gang's on hand: Coke, Ford, General Motors, Shell, Texaco, Esso, Frank Sinatra, even Helena Rubinstein with American beauty standards. But the spoken narration puts this post-card Brazil into perspective, reciting figures on the present-day poverty of the Brazilian people, on the history of foreign profiteering. The Old and the New are but emblems of successive ruling classes, the monuments they built to themselves and their success, leering gargoyles that mock the masses...
...Linda will play the part of full-time hosts and chaperons. The lodge will serve regular meals and will have a bottle club in the converted cellar with regular entertainment. For sightseers, the superbly modern lodge house in the ski area itself offers matchless scenic views while the picture post-card hamlet of Brownsville Center is only 100 yards away...