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Although Vanessa Bryant is Latina, you don't have to be Hispanic to wear phrases such as CHICA, MAMACITA and NO PROBLEMA on your chest these days. Tops, T shirts, hoodies and hats featuring Spanish words or showcasing Latin sports teams are selling briskly to Latinos and non-Latinos alike...
...wrapping food under a blinking red neon light trumpeting FRESH TORTILLAS. Espinoza, about eight months pregnant, knows Mahon but doesn't know English. So, with some help from the store manager, she informs Mahon that she is going to the hospital the next day for amniocentesis. "No problema for me?" asks Espinoza, her eyes dark with worry. "No mal," Mahon reassures...
...Lite slogan told readers the beer was "Filling, and less delicious." Similar blunders are often made by Anglos trying to impress Spanish-speaking pals. But if Latinos are amused by mangled Spanglish, they also recognize these goofs as a sort of friendly acceptance. As they might put it, no problema...
EDWARD R. MURROW: Good evening. This is See It Now . . . Tonight, "The Farm ProblemA Crisis of Abundance." This is the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson [camera swings to a bespectacled Mr. Benson'], who is ... going to sit here and watch this program with us and take an occasional note...
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