Word: rey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zona Rosa, the title of the second and featured play, refers to San Salvador's "Pink Zone," an enclave of cafes and boutiques. Ansara dramatizes the chance meeting of three schoolmates at one of these cafes. Bobby, Yolanda, and Rey are the only surviving members of the Class of '79 at a city prep school. Not a bad premise, but so many secrets and contradictions are breathlessly revealed that the audience can only turn numb...
Among these "shocking" revelations are the fact that Rey (Jay Chiumento) helped his classmates cheat on one of their final exams but was the only one to be expelled for the act. Ansara uses this tidbit as an excuse for a flashback to the fresh revolutionary fervor of 1979. As Bobby (David Frisch) and Rey copy over old tests, Rey equates the stealing of a Latin exam to a revolutionary act: "Say no to the academy, no to the authorities!!" Better yet, say no to the acting...
...realizes that the eight regulars have been having fairly average years. Since when does Jim Rice have fewer than a dozen homers a month after the All-Star break? Since when does Bill Buckner struggle to reach the .250 plateau? Since when does any team win with shortstops named Rey Quinones and Ed Romero...
...years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Dutch meteorologist who is now director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, West Germany, suggested that a cataclysmic nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University and a handful of other researchers elaborated on the idea, concluding that the cold, which they called nuclear winter, could last for months. Some scientists have disagreed with a few of the more extreme predictions of this hypothesis, which has been given...
...distance between the two parties was underlined at the meeting's end as each summed up the discussions. "The road to peace isn't an easy one," said Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, the government representative (President José Napoleón Duarte did not attend). Then, as the government side sped away, Rubén Zamora, the best-known member of the rebel delegation, climbed the steps to the microphones with three colleagues. Said Facundo Guardado, a senior guerrilla commander: "There is an oligarchical power that shares and applies the policies of the Reagan Administration, a power that...