Word: sampaguitas
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...This is one "Flip" who flipped over your cover story on the Philippines [Oct. 21]. It's all there-my country's "crazy kind of charm": from the potholed roads to careening Jeepneys to urchins peddling the sampaguita, our national flower, plus all the reasons why I am proud to be a Filipino and can hardly wait to go back home. TIME, you're d'best! Mabuhay...
...both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge and D'Best Furniture Store. Why? "It's classy," explains a Filipino. "It's French...
...Philippine folk songs, commissioned this summer by the Glee Club, will be presented for the first time Friday night. The songs, "Sampaguita" and "Lulay," are folk songs arranged for men's chorus by native composers...
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