Word: rodolfos
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...that "nothing is like anything else, nothing is ever just one story, but a net that each person weaves without knowing the overall pattern." Martinez realizes that the work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification he wishes to avoid: "a sing-along article out of selections from the Reader's Digest...
Several universities across the country have always known of the importance of studying Chicano/Latino issues and have established departments that focus on the significant contributions of our culture and labor. Professors including Rodolfo Acuna from California State University at Northridge, Carlos Munoz from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Visiting Professor Maria Herrera-Sobek from the University of California at Irvine have devoted themselves to better understanding the experiences of Chicanos and Latinos in the United States...
...Nothing, not the Atlanta Olympic committee, not commercialism, not even a bomb, can extinguish the Olympic ideal. Some of the most heated matches in these Games--boxing, baseball, volleyball--will be between Cuba and the U.S. Yet the other night, after Jeff Rouse of the U.S. defeated two Cubans, Rodolfo Falcon Cabrera and Neisser Bent, in the 100-m backstroke, Cabrera took his seat at the press conference, smiled at Rouse in admiration and patted the chair next to him as an invitation. It was the smallest and the largest of gestures...
...Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor in combat experience], he was not authorized to wear it. Careers are ruined by lying to the troops, and the good admiral knew that." But Rodolfo A. Arizala of Santiago had a more pragmatic reaction: "To the nonmilitary person, it is unthinkable that the honest mistake of wearing an unauthorized combat ribbon could snuff out the life of a 'sailor's sailor...
...materials that hadn't been invented this time last year. Rent the musical is tough and loud, and it deals with AIDS and drugs. It is also a radical updating of Puccini's La Boheme, and the costumes, designed by Angela Wendt, take their cue partly from that. Roger (Rodolfo in the opera) wears plaid pants made from a material similar to a popular trouser cloth of the mid-19th century. Tom Collins (Colline in the opera) follows Puccini in that the young man has a coat he loves, although it is a Tommy Hilfiger-style jacket. Today's Mimi...