Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nabokovian wordplays and tries to pass him off as Humbert Humbert (in Lolita, Humbert observed, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power...
...keynote speaker, Reverend Ralph Abernathy of the S.C.L.C., gets a big hand with "Power to the people." Dick Gregory's "This is a sick, insane, unethical country..." gets a bigger hand. "We will oppose the reactionary violence of the Capitalists and their lackeys." Jesus Lopez a Puerto Rican predicts, "With the revolutionary violence of the workers...
...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...