Word: puerto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thirty-five smart people from New York City have flown down to Puerto Rico on an errand that is surpassingly silly but not at all foolish. They are filming a 30-second TV commercial intended to make every woman in Europe, where it will be shown, rush out to the corner parfumerie to buy a scent called Ô de Lancôme. To do this, their script says, they must make Puerto Rico look like the south of France...
...should not Puerto Rico, which is very beautiful, look like itself? Because the client is a French company, and the client says so, that's why. Don't argue. Lancôme is paying a boxcarful of money for its whim (some $9,000 a day, or more than $1,100 an hour, for instance, just for the services of Star Model Isabella Rossellini), and arguing costs about $50 a word. So Nick LaMicela, the project's art director, has selected a quiet country road, with no palm trees to spoil the illusion of France. Somebody...
Student support for changing the scholarship's name continues to mount. The Law School's Third World Coalition yesterday signed the seventh protest letter, to be delivered to the K-School later this week. The coalition consists of representatives from Black, Hispanic, Arab, Asian, American Indian and Puerto Rican law student organizations...
...added that the main interests of the U.S. in the Caribbean island were geopolitical and economic. Because Puerto Rico is not a state corporations operating in the commonwealth pay no federal taxes, and take billions of dollar...
Cartos Romero-Barrel Governor on Puerto Rica, said the agreed with many of Herrion's points, but added that the way to light for equity is to demand the full rights of statehood. And Ruffle Human in Colon, governor of the commonwealth from 1973 to called for economic last moment under the aegis of commonwealth hood...