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Leaving aside the high-profile pantheon of De la Renta, Adolfo and Herrera, some of the hottest young designers are building their collections and reputations around traditional Latin styles. Fernando Sanchez's luxurious lingerie, Isabel Toledo's topstitched, balloon-shaped skirts, Angel Estrada's sexy satin bustiers all have an unmistakable flair that is setting the standard for many designers across the country. "A Latin sensibility in fashion design is apparent in nuances," says Penny Harrison, a co-founder of Hispanic Designers Inc., "in a certain flair, elegance or the use of vivid color...
...Milcha Sanchez-Scott, 33, was born in Bali of an Indonesian mother and a Colombian-Mexican father, and lived as a child in Mexico, South America and Britain before her family settled near San Diego when she was 14. Although her father was a middle-class gardener, she identified with those who had not yet fit into the economic system. She became a sometime actress who also worked as a maid and at a temp agency...
...these four playwrights, Sanchez-Scott is closest to the Latin American tradition of "magic realism," in which visionary or hallucinatory elements coexist with a gritty naturalism much as they do in the fiction of Borges and Garcia Marquez. In the play on which her reputation rests, Roosters, what seems a straightforward depiction of the life of farmhands gives way to mysterious visitations, symbolic cockfights enacted by dancers, virginal girls wearing wings, archetypal confrontations between father...
...young lions' share of attention, commencement has always been a family affair -- and never more so than this year. At Immaculata College, near Philadelphia, Nora Gammon, 54, a mother of twelve children, proudly accepted her B.A. along with Daughter Laureen, 21. At New York City's Lehman College, Elyse Sanchez's brood of four proudly stood by while the 35-year-old welfare mother got her B.A. Elizabeth McCulla, 21, became the eighth in her family to graduate from William and Mary (Mom's and Dad's alma mater). Jesse Jackson stumped up a storm as speaker at his alma...
...reception honoring Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Oscar Arias Sanchez, Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 yesterday announced the inception of permanent fellowships that will enable two Costa Rican students to attend the K-School...