Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shar von Boskirk's Anita is heavy on sass, making her excellent in the back-and-forth taunts of "America," but rather too cute for comfort in the long haul. It is hard to play a Puerto Rican caricatures without mugging, however, and it is certainly better to have a spicy Anita than a bland...
...Puerto Rican...
...ever written. Crichton saw it as a challenge: "The reality is, you can't be fresh. If you're really fresh, it's not a sequel." He anticipates a critical drubbing, and probably deserves one. The book (it's six years after Jurassic Park, we're on a Costa Rican island, and the earth trembles .) has a cutting-room-floor feeling to it: outtakes. No matter; the national release of 2 million hardback copies is one of the biggest in history, and Spielberg is already storyboarding it for the movies--though he hasn't yet decided whether he will direct...
...when I first felt a sense of racial identity, when I first understood that I belonged to a minority. In those early years, I had no such sense, because on Banana Kelly there was no majority. Everybody was either a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, a Greek, a Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny...
...speech sponsored by the W.E.B. DuBois Society and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Santiago described his personal struggle for identity growing up in Spanish Harlem as the child of a white Puerto Rican father and a Black Puerto Rican mother...