Word: salsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smell of the cooking. In Mexican areas people are doing the taco thing with beans and rice; in Puerto Rican areas it's roast pork and fried rice. If you walk around Pilsen (a Mexican enclave) you'll hear mariachi music; in (Puerto Rican) Humboldt Park you'll hear salsa and conga drums...
...random bunch of shoppers have been trapped by what may be the end of the world. Familiar brand names anchor the incredible; a flying monster invades the store and is set on fire by the beleaguered defenders, finally crashing "into the spaghetti sauces, splattering Ragu and Prince and Prima Salsa everywhere like gouts of blood." King's private lines to primal nightmares and American consumerism remain in good working order...
RUBEN BLADES Y SEIS DEL SOLAR: BUSCANDO AMERICA (Elektra/Asylum). The title translates as "Searching for America." But no translation is necessary to catch the salsa rhythms and deft jazz inflections that surround these political parables...
...carrying his impression of the President and some private U.S. messages to his Soviet bosses, urging talks on the subjects of superpower tension. At the White House, during a dinner for the diplomatic corps, Dobrynin was served some of Bob Herdman's boneless strip sirloin barbecue, pinquito beans, salsa, marinated artichoke hearts and toasted, buttered sourdough bread. Dobrynin got an all-American message: good fellowship with peppers...
...that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá; conducts a long-distance collaboration with Gabriel Garcia Márquez on a cycle of songs based on some of the Nobel prizewinner's early stories; and, with...