Word: santo
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...south coast 40 miles from Santo Domingo, San Pedro began work on its two main export crops, sugar and baseball talent, more or less simultaneously. At the turn of the century, the game was cultivated by newly arrived American owners of the sugar mills, who sponsored company teams in local competition. The mill workers were good players, in part, it is said, because wielding machetes in the cane fields had strengthened their arms. Ensuing years of team rivalry and the 1916-24 occupation by U.S. Marines helped make America's national pastime San Pedro's major social activity...
Some readers of Bloomingdale's latest issue are irritated by the commercials. "I was shocked," says Henrietta Santo, director of a Manhattan fitness center. "I don't expect ads in the middle of a catalog." Eileen Adams, a personal shopper in New York City, asked regarding a perfume pitch on one page, "That's not an ad, is it?" It was, and some agencies are skeptical of the trend. Says Advertising Executive Katie Muldoon: "It's confusing, and we wouldn't recommend it to our clients." But contends Agency Head Jo-Von Tucker: "The more prestigious the store the higher...
...Cruz-Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid % more than $130 a week has managed to send for four of her six children. "I lived on 150 pesos ($48) a month in Santo Domingo," she says. "This is paradise. I am working. I am earning money. I am driving. I am buying things I want. My priority is for the children...
...York City is America's melting pot. Today, local planning officials estimate, 2.1 million of the city's 7.1 million residents are from overseas, some 30%, a larger proportion than at any time since the 1940s. There are more Dominicans (an estimated 350,000) than in any city but Santo Domingo, more Haitians (225,000) than anywhere but Port au Prince, more Greeks (100,000) than anywhere but Athens. New York has more Jamaicans (275,000), Russians (100,000) and Chinese (200,000), it seems sure, than any city outside Jamaica, the U.S.S.R., China and Taiwan. Los Angeles and Miami...
...noisy concerto by the 19th century Irish piano virtuoso John Field (thus the Field in the title). In commissioning the piece, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov asked only that Gordon use a set, and Gordon came up with an inventive one. Executed with cheeky wit by Santo Loquasto, it unfolds from left to right like a Japanese screen: first a sort of rock field, then above it, an orange mountain on which are painted more folding chairs...