Word: salsa
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...where the president - the TV one, Martin Sheen, that is - held court with the rest of his staff. Not to be outdone by California's Gov. Gray Davis who threw a party for 15,000 on the Paramount lot, Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante hosted a wild night of salsa and singing Tuesday that had the crowd on its feet, hip-swivelling to Enrique Iglesias, Los Lobos and La India or pounding out their appreciation for farmworker organizer Cesar Chavez and his family...
There are exceptions, of course, to my anti-green condiment rule. Green chile sauce (? la Tabasco) is passable, I suppose, but even though it's often hotter than its red counterpart, it always seems a pale imitation. Green salsa is palatable, but generally brings to mind questions I'd rather not contemplate while eating, like: How did this color come into being? What sort of bizarre food colorings am I consuming? Could I use this salsa in a multimedia performance art project...
...show (joined by Donna Hanover and a randomly selected audience member). The pregame show also features Iron Chef's interview with TIME, in which Morimoto, who cooks at Manhattan's Nobu, kept talking about how unfair it would be if the theme ingredient turned out to be guacamole or salsa. "Not that I can't do it," he insisted without any irony. "If he says Mexican, I feel confident I could create something interesting." Maybe Flay is right about their not getting...
Colleges have also fallen in love with the event. Campus crash-courses in swing and salsa are well attended nationwide. Some schools, like Brigham Young University, offer ballroom dancing scholarships to particularly promising high school prospects...
This year the macarena's not going to cut it; Al Gore had better work on his salsa moves. With the Cuban-American political leadership already enraged at the administration over the Elian Gonzalez case, Wednesday's raid on protesters at a Navy base in Vieques could certainly dampen Puerto Rican enthusiasm for getting out the Gore vote. U.S. marshals and FBI agents began in the early hours arresting protesters who're trying to stop the U.S. Navy from reopening its bombing range on the island, among them nuns, priests, labor leaders and U.S. congresspeople from Illinois and New York...