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...rendezvous complete with steam bath, tiny cubicles for man-to-man trysts and a third-rate entertainer, Googie Gomez, a thrush with a condor's appetite for stardom. As the chanteuse, Rita Moreno is a comic earthquake ranking ten on the Richter scale, though her Puerto Rican accent renders some of her lines unintelligible...
Three rectangular swatches of fabric dangle from the ceiling. On one pair, Alex Griswold has silkscreened the Puerto Rican rain forest, El Yunque, in green and earthy brown. His elegant, intricate design is abstract, but you can't mistake the jungle foilage...
Like other radical Greeks, Hadzilacos says he is committed to the "progressive movement" world-wide. He notes specifically his protest both of the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in Chile one year ago and of racism in the United States, and his support for Puerto Rican independence...
...most children go home every day to an environment of encouragement, where literate, college-educated parents could react to poems, and where children could benefit from "acquired tastes." Instead, Koch taught at P.S.61 on Manhattan's lower East Side, where more than half the kids are black or Puerto Rican. And his results--at least those that were published--are impressive. For example, Koch asked a fourth grader to translate one sense into another and she wrote...
...Robinson, 39, the appointment was the culmination of a carefully orchestrated campaign that officially began six years ago when he became a manager in the Puerto Rican winter league. "All I want," he said, "is the chance to manage." He still spent his summers slugging home runs as an All-Star outfielder for the Orioles, and later the Dodgers and Angels, but two pennants in Puerto Rico proved that he deserved the big opportunity he sought...