Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often do eclectic musicians make it to puritanical New England; however, if ready for some rumbombozo, check out the mixture of African, Cuban and Puerto Rican culture in the rumba and bomba dance and mucic troupe stopping by our chilly city this week-end. World Music presents Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas and Los Hermanos Cepeda at Sanders Theatre at 7:30 p.m., both just aching to add some spice and salsa to the clam chowder state we call home. Call...
Laura. I. Martinez '02, from Puerto Rico, livesin a suite on the fourth floor of Pennypacker withtwo international students, both from Asia, and anAsian-American student...
Bismarck Jonathan Paliz, 17, has watched his immigrant parents struggle and sacrifice to make a life for the family. His father, born in Ecuador, slowly built up a real estate business. His Puerto Rican-born mother Wadette, an administrative assistant, began working at 18 as an office clerk, taking courses to improve her skills and minimal time off for the birth of each of her three children. The family suffered major setbacks when their home was badly damaged twice by fire. Watching his parents rebuild, Bismarck, the eldest child, learned the value of persistence. "My parents have always been fighters...
...took no time at all for the native Americans who first greeted Christopher Columbus to be all but erased from the face of the earth. For about a thousand years the peaceful people known as the Taino had thrived in modern-day Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and many other islands in the Lesser and Greater Antilles. But less than 30 years after Columbus' three ocean-crossing ships dropped anchor off the island of Hispaniola, the Taino would be destroyed by Spanish weaponry, forced labor and European diseases. Unlike their distant cousins, the Inca, Aztecs and Maya, the Taino...
...take two," the audience is thrust forward in time to 1985, where a middle-aged couple is enjoying the view from their hotel balcony in San Juan. This next skit, "A View from the Roof," revolves around Betty, an emotionally frustrated Jewish wife who is duped by a suave Puerto Rican artist. The third skit, entitled "My Mother's Luck," is essentially a long monologue spoken by a Jewish mother to her daughter Hannah, who is preparing to live with her wealthy father in pre-WWII Germany...